The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – superheroes may be set to return to the screen

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen began as a 1958 novel, then a 1960 British film, which inspired a comic book series from 1999-2019, and another film in 2003. It might be set to return to the screen in the future. Let’s go back to the beginning before we go back to the future.  British author Bertram…

A Retired Gentleman by Issa J. Boullata

A Retired Gentleman and Other Stories (2007) is a collection of 8 short stories in an 106-page booklet. The author, Issa J. Boullata, is a former professor and translator of Arabic literature, who has written a novel and a biography of Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab. ‘Without a Court Trial’ is about two friends, Abdallah…