Letters

Literary daybook, Dec. 20

Flashes of hope in the darkest hour

A whole Lotta racism

A year to forget

Thong or bikini, sir?

Social cravings

The last temptation of Martin Scorsese

"Gangs of New York"

"Narc"

"Morvern Callar"

"25th Hour"

Letters

Sex, sin and the gangs of San Francisco

Confederates in the attic

Radical humanist, Iraq hawk