The original manuscript of the great 20th-century New Orleans novel A Confederacy of Dunces may never surface, but a rare manuscript copy with handwritten corrections was purchased earlier this month ...

After my column last month on “A Confederacy of Dunces,” Bob Jacobsen wrote to let me know that legions of fans also love the book — and they’re willing to speak up when it’s overlooked. Most of us ...

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“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,” ...

NANTUCKET, Mass. — Taking a test drive in front of an audience of 800 people at the Nantucket Film Festival, director David Gordon Green and a knockout lineup of actors staged a reading Saturday of “A ...

A Confederacy of Dunces has been called a love letter to New Orleans and hailed as a modern comedic classic. Now, a new cookbook looks at the food and culture that help define the characters in the ...

Nick Offerman stars as larger-than-life character Ignatius J. Reilly, the Don Quixote of the French Quarter. He’s overweight, arrogant, eccentric, and still living in his mother’s New Orleans ...

Re: "A Confederacy of dunces," Your Opinions, Feb. 5. I commend the writer for wisely quoting Jonathan Swift's satire about a true genius and the "dunces" who come against him, and I completely agree ...