He stood at the foot of the grave, gloved hands clasped behind him, his dark clothes and hair blending into one black silhouette, as if he were not a presence but an absence, a hole...

The wavelets flung themselves up as if trying to pat my feet and I darted back, laughing, and picked up my skirts to chase them back as they receded, in a game of tag more...

The ability to lie persuasively is one of the greatest gifts a woman can possess in this life. Some critics, principally men, will argue that deception in women is inherently evil; but having spent the...

It’s so frustrating that everybody rags on eighties music, when there’s a lot of terrific stuff out there,” he said. “There’s no irony to it. It’s not afraid to just be happy or enthusiastic or...