To be fair, Elaine never wanted to see The English Patient. Even though her date notes that the film is up for a bunch of Oscars, she prefers to catch Sack Lunch, an apparently wacky comedy. “Don't ...

This column was written by Wesley J. Smith. The most important bioethics litigation in the world today involves a 45-year-old Englishman, Leslie Burke. He isn't asking for very much. Burke has a ...

The English Patient has been crowned the best ever Man Booker Prize winner. The novel by Michael Ondaatje was chosen by the public as the recipient for the Golden Man Booker Prize, a one-off accolade ...

The desert romance has a distinguished history in the movies, from Rudolph Valentino’s swan song, “Son of the Sheik,” in 1926, through the greatest of them all, in which nary a dune appears: 1942’s ...

Who bears more responsibility for the declining reputation of The English Patient: Elaine Benes, or Harvey Weinstein? On its release at the end of 1996, The English Patient was widely hailed as a ...

This story was first published Saturday, Nov. 9, 1996. The first thing you notice about the new film adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient (which opens in ...

As The English Patient wins the Golden Booker prize, the author reveals why he could never have been a writer if he’d stayed in Britain On Sunday night, Michael Ondaatje stepped on to the wide stage ...