Spending your twenties following your heart off cliffs and making many mistakes isn't ideal, but nearly everyone...
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).
The Nicholas Ray/ Humphrey Bogart film In a Lonely Place changes so much from the Dorothy Hughes...
The first thing that strikes me about "Chess Story," the last piece of fiction Zweig wrote, is...
A rollicking posthumous novel with a very Jewish punchline for its parable: Yes, everyone is kind of...
They always judge you. On Hungarian writer Magda Szabó's haunting novel about a housekeeper who loves and...
Taking time for Paul Harding's Pulitzer winning first novel about a clock repairman and horologist for whom...
This 1995 novel by Sarah Schulman is a good reminder of a time when people moved to...
We're not all Christian anarchists like Leo Tolstoy, but he's not exactly wrong about how art eases...
Like fairy tales for mad children, the stories of Leonora Carrington are as packed with strangeness and...
Primo Levi is best remembered as one of the great novelists of the Holocaust; he was one...
This week, we hear from poet and raconteur Darrell Epp about why he loves "On The Eve,"...
The rich and detailed story of "Assembling a Black Counter Culture" and how Detroit gave the world...
It's not about "nostalgia" for a "lost time"... in her performances and stories, Penny Arcade talks about...
In an era of boring mass media, we need creative weirdness more than ever. "Music is Over!"...
Are the pundits right? Are we drowning in an ocean of boring art and culture? What I’m...
Finally, I write about a streaming series - I watched the streaming series "Severance," a surreal depiction...
For a lot of Canadians, Gord Lewis played on the soundtrack of their youth. For me, he...
Desperate Characters, a rediscovered classic about two people whose lives would be ideal, if they had any...
Guy de Maupassant's classic novel is another in a long line of adulterous wife stories; but really,...
I wanted to write about Jesmyn Ward’s novel Salvage the Bones for a few reasons, including its...
