My father was born in 1910. He rarely called underpants ‘underpants’. He called them ‘indescribables’ or ‘unmentionables’, and into them he put his ‘benders’, ‘underpinners’ or — wait for it — ‘crural ...

Astounding craft abounds in “Ferdydurke,” which ends its Odyssey Theatre Ensemble engagement Wednesday. Although specialized, this 1998 adaptation of Polish literary giant Witold Gombrowicz’s classic ...

Eloquence most flourished at Rome when the public affairs were in the worst condition — Michel de Montaigne. What the French essayist wrote in the mid-16th century about Rome of the 2nd and 1st ...