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Herbert Kuhner
Charlton Heston was one of the great Hollywood stars. His heyday was the Fifties and Sixties. Tall and handsome and with a resonant voice, he seems to have been born for stardom. His patrician features still look like they were carved out of granite or wood. And wooden is an adjective he has had […]

Herbert Kuhner
The wonderful thing about Orthodox Judaism is that your life is all laid out for you. All you have to is follow the religious laws. Do that - and you can’t go wrong!
Here’s a quote from a PR Text for “Kosher Nostra: Jewish Gangsters in America 1890-1980,” The Jewish Museum, Vienna, November 2003: “Samuel […]

PEN American Center - Forum
E-mail Forum
Subject: What are we missing?
From: PEN America
To: PEN members
What great books have never been translated into English?
Harry Kuhner: I would like to recommend the work of Leonid Andreyev, the great neglected Russian author who, in my view, was Kafka’s precursor. He is occasionally represented in anthologies, but not much […]

You can be nude and yet in uniform. The uniform you can wear in the nude consists of tattoos, piercings - and even brandings. The skin functions as a canvass by being emblazoned with seals of approval, which not only delineate a craving for pain but also indicate that the body is an instrument of […]

My Name Is William
I was at a garden party when a man who happened to be black walked onto the lawn. “My name is William” he said. “Hello, there William, said the host. Here’s the buffet, help yourself to a drink and some vittels! Then, three other men appeared, who were not as well-dressed and […]

We were staying on the Isle of Wight with my wife’s aunt. There was a scandal at the time which was on page one of the broadsheets, as well as the tabloids. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had been caught in flagranti having an extra-marital affair with a beauty who was outspoken.
She showed no remorse […]