Reading Time: 4 minutes MICHAEL TAUBE: From Liniers’ Macanudo to Frazz and The Dragon Who Lived Downstairs
Tag: Fiction Books
Riding the Toonerville Trolley in Kentucky…or New York?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The legendary comic strip Toonerville Folks ran from 1908 to 1955
19th century Scottish novelists cast a long shadow
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson’s reputations were created primarily by Hollywood
Murdoch Mysteries – then and now
Reading Time: 4 minutes Murdoch Mysteries: the Movies were much darker than the TV show
The Search for Bridey Murphy a tale of reincarnation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sales of the book far outpaced expectations
The tragedy of Oscar Wilde
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Anglo-Irish playwright, poet and novelist ended up imprisoned, the casualty of his own foolishness
The legend of King Arthur is a gift that keeps on giving
Reading Time: 4 minutes Although it may be a fabrication, the story has powerful resonance
Are we seeing the destruction of democratic capitalism?
Reading Time: 4 minutes More than 100 years after H.G. Wells forecast big changes in the world order, the tide is turning
A direct call on a pocket phone from 100 years ago
Reading Time: 4 minutes Cartoonist W.K. Haselden was known for making bold predictions, including some that are eerily accurate
If you like medieval drama, The Last Kingdom fits the bill
Reading Time: 3 minutes While not scrupulously accurate, it is still quite engrossing