About a recent film adaptation of J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel concerning a far-fetched dystopian future in which...
Rufus F.
Rufus is a likeable curmudgeon. He has a PhD in History, sang for a decade in a punk band, and recently moved to NYC after nearly two decades in Canada. He wrote the book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (2021).
On the book "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer and the act of eating animals.
Thoughts on writing, working, and professionalism.
As Gustave Flaubert realized in Egypt, the dream of social engineering will never come true as long...
Jefferson’s powerful eyes constantly dissected and analyzed: especially for scientific reasons, Jefferson spied...
A scholarly look at how literature can help us to understand the hard work of being human.
Really, nobody is to blame for the unsustainable adjunct situation in academia. And so, nobody can fix...
The abstraction of “inequality” doesn’t matter a lot to ordinary Americans. The reality of economic insecurity does.
A new book from Oxford University Press takes a lively and engaging look at that bleakest of...
Two scholars do a service for intellectual history in arguing how a distinguished thinker could have been...
A book coming out next month turns the days leading up to Pearl Harbor into a nail-biter...
Rufus writes perhaps too many words on gentrification after finding himself living in "the Brooklyn of Canada".
Confessions of a public scribbler
How we write stories mirrors the strange and uncanny ways we make sense of our lives.
Buckley changed things when he founded National Review in 1955. He introduced the philosophers to the populists....
Is the literary class impoverishing literature?
Power, in the absence, of authority, can inspire some obedience, but no respect.
How does the unregulated "free market" determine the wages paid to prostitutes?
The memoir of an East L.A. barrio girl turned punk rock legend.
A recent film with unsimulated sex and simulated depth.
