How should we read Zola today? Reading his Nana, I was struck by a scene in which the...
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).
In his voyage account from the 13th century, Marco Polo tells of “the old man of the...
In November, 1983, the ABC network aired the television movie The Day After, depicting the effects of...
Surge was a citrus-flavored soda pop launched in the US by the Coca Cola Company in 1996...
In his 1877 preface to, and defence of, his novel L’Assommoir, Émile Zola writes: “I wanted to depict...
Over at the League sub-blog “Forbes”, E.D. shares Roger Ebert’s suggestions as to why movie theatregoing is...
Karl Marx once said that he wouldn’t consider himself to be a “Marxist” and reading Leviathan I don’t find...
After the first batch of 2010 league posts was whittled down, there are 40 posts left. Any...
There is a superb scene in the third chapter of Alexander Pushkin’s novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin in which...
If we’re going to pick our favorite posts from the last three years for this League Journal,...
Currently, the Soul Pepper Theatre in Toronto’s distillery district is staging Ibsen’s Ghosts; thus one can safely...
[bumped to the top and the front page for more visibility – Erik] Two recent stories got...
As a stand up comedian, Steve Martin had a bit in which he would muse about what...
For some reason, the following exchange of viewpoints, across a span of about a century, came to...
Robinson Crusoe was an immediate success when first published in April, 1719. By the end of the...
With the annual onset of seasonal depression my curmudgeon persona returns and promptly begins griping about every...
How does evil get into the world? Where does it come from? Why is it here? For...
Okay I did one a few weeks ago. If nobody objects though here’s a really cool blues...
As someone who spends, and has always spent, a great deal of time in record stores, I...
Wow! The scuttlebutt has it that the West Memphis Three are about to be released from prison...
