Dreamers Rise

Thomas Keightley: "Another wonderful thing," says Ralph of Coggeshall, "happened in Suffolk, at St. Mary's of the Wolf-...

In the 1980s, with his international reputation secured, Gabriel García Márquez agreed to write a series of brief syndicated essays that app...

At first glance this is a typical example of the kind of cheap fiction for adolescents that was popular in the early decades of the twentiet...

The subject of my last post led me to anthropolgist Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence's 1997 book Hunting the Wren: Transformation of Bird to S...

Ideally I should have posted this on St. Stephen's Day (December 26th according to the Western Christian calendar), but the elements did...

The traditional ballad heard here is at least three hundred years old but doesn't seem to have run out of steam. This lovely, fairly rec...

I enjoyed this seasonally appropriate 1960 Mexican film directed by Roberto Gavaldón, with cinematography by Gabriel Figueroa. Macario is b...

In 1975 I took a course taught by a folklorist who had a parallel career as the producer of a number of commercial recordings of folk music....

Henry Mayhew, the great chronicler of 19th-century London's working poor, collected the following tale in the course of an interview wit...

The above illustration by the late French artist Jean-Claude Pertuzé is from a version of a folktale known in French as "Jean de l'...

Ruth Otis Sawtell & Ida Treat: Our greatest adventure we found at Mérigon. Mérigon, with its face to the sunny roadside and its back to ...

I'm in the early stages of a long slow re-read of Cortázar's Hopscotch, and this time I'm making a point of annotating some of ...