Notes on Stefan Zweig's "The Post Office Girl", assimilation, and shifting fortunes.
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).
Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the passing of a year.
What do we do with vanished past ideas that appeal to us?
Saul DeGraw thinks artists are too stuck in shock for the sake of shock. On the contrary,...
An update to that horrific story about the missing student teachers (normalistas) in Iguala, Mexico: the Mayor...
In the L.A. Times, Professor Rubén MartÃnez offers a horrific tale from Guerrero State, Mexico, of 43...
Today, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo received a military procession and funeral in Hamilton, Ontario. Firsthand impressions from the...
A thought experiment: could we say that this generation embraces the notion that culture workers should not...
Memories of a co-worker with some noxious beliefs.
After he told my great-grandfather about dying on the battlefield, Ernest Hemingway said he'd never write about...
If academic freedom is worth protecting for tenured professors, what about for the non-tenured majority now teaching...
Reading it again after about twenty years, the sex in Henry Miller's book is less startling than...
I’m sitting in the public library, where a volunteer is explaining the contents to a group of...
My forebears can beat up your literary icons
I'd like to do something less stultifying, please.
Stevenson's story endures because we sympathize with Jekyll and identify with Hyde.
In Satrah, Punjab recently the esteem that had been cruelly stripped from one family was blissfully restored...
Memories of a friend and chaotic muse.
A few lessons gained through marginal labor.
