A scene that should not be possible The scene takes place in Bulgaria, on national public television, in the country’s flagship history program — the equivalent, in local terms, of a BBC prime-time historical roundtable or a PBS flagship documentary panel. This is not fringe…

I suppose many of you have heard that now-iconic Beckett quote: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. The fact that I’m beginning to reflect on this particular theme is, of course, no coincidence. Failure as theory and failure as reality are two…

“Hello…” Even in this most neutral of phrases, her voice somehow managed to sound drawn out and inviting – or openly seductive, depending on the interpreter’s imagination. For a moment, he considered telling her what he had just been doing five minutes ago with the thought of…

After surviving the Ghost Forest, Anne — still Firecurl, still fierce — awakens to find her journey far from over.