Dreamers Rise

The writer Lore Segal has died; the New York Times has an obituary . Two of Segal's novels have been on and off my to-read list for yea...

The poet Donald Hall was born and raised in suburban Connecticut, but he spent many of his summers at his maternal grandparents' farm in...

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

Major disasters, natural or otherwise, have a way of forcing one not only out of one's routines but out of mental patterns as well. They...

An illustration by Maurice Sendak, specially commissioned in 1971 by the Brentanos bookstore chain (now long since defunct) for an invitatio...