SLOTHFUL, FLATULENT and imperious, Ignatius Reilly was a wholly original anti-hero when he burst from the pages of “A Confederacy of Dunces” in 1980. American readers fell in love with this ...

Reilly in a big-screen adaptation of John Kennedy Toole's 'A Confederacy of Dunces.' According to an uncited report published Tuesday night (May 22) on Vulture, the entertainment blog run by New ...

Kramer became one of the first of many readers to be seduced by the comic charms of A Confederacy of Dunces. The producer has spent 26 years trying to make the book into a movie, and his odyssey ...

Journal Editorial Report: Democrats are praising Mike Pence's courage. It won't last. Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Conspiracy theories demand a suspension of disbelief from their ...

A confederacy of dunces stumbled onto the Senate floor this week to launch their bewildering defense of President Trump. This misfit band of lawyers brought with them arguments so stunningly ...

One by one, the weapons schools are allowed to use against disruptive pupils are being decommissioned. Corporal punishment was outlawed in the state sector in 1987 and in independent schools by ...

Spare a thought for poor Bill de Blasio. As cities across the South are shedding their Confederate memorials faster than you can say Stonewall Jackson, what New York’s mayor wouldn’t give for ...

In 1969, at the age of thirty-one, Toole asphyxiated himself—in despair, it is often assumed, over his failure to publish “A Confederacy of Dunces,” the comic novel he wrote mostly while ...

Gerald Molen had no idea that his star was in trouble. Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative author and—more recently—filmmaker, was arrested on Thursday, suspected of laundering “more than $ ...