In this short essay, Walter Metz uses a graduation speech by David Foster Wallace to analyze the water imagery in the new Gus ...

I'm not a fan of labels, of categories. Le Carré is sometimes called a spy novelist. Rubbish. He's a novelist of the first ...

Simon Thompson looks at the story behind ten great unmade films… “What if…?” scenarios are something which truly gnaw at the human psyche, in almost every context. Socially, romantically, and ...

Lewis Pullman is getting in the family business and will star alongside his father Bill Pullman in Spaceballs 2.

“Mother, I have been seized!” echoed throughout the Huntington Theatre Wednesday evening as Nick Offerman’s character was arrested on stage. John Kennedy Toole’s novel “A Confederacy of Dunces,” ...

If it wasn’t for John Kennedy Toole’s mom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel would likely have been lost to time. The novel’s author was a prodigy. John Kennedy Toole, who was born in New ...

In 1980, Grove paid $2,000 for the paperback rights to “A Confederacy of Dunces,” John Kennedy Toole’s posthumously published novel about the misadventures of Ignatius J. Reilly, an educated ...

1981. In Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole painted a definitive portrait of fictitious yet oh-so-lifelike New Orleans characters and won a posthumous 1981 Pulitzer Prize.

A Confederacy of Dunces. By John Kennedy Toole. ... The charms of Ignatius Reilly will be lost on some, but the protagonist of John Kennedy Toole’s novel is a comedic colossus.

It’s difficult, painful even, to ponder everything lost in the repeated failure to bring A Confederacy Of Dunces to the big screen. At various points, John Belushi, John Candy, Chris Farley ...

John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces might be the king of this category: despite seemingly filmable subject matter (a sloppy schmuck’s misadventures in New Orleans), a posthumous ...