Dreamers Rise

This chapbook by songwriter Peter Case is the first installment of a promised book-length memoir, a few additional sections of which have be...

We drove along the edge of the reservoir. I looked out across the open water, frozen only here and there in patches along the shore, at the ...

In his preface to Ainu: Creed and Cult , B. Z. Seligman has this to say about the author: Neil Gordon Munro was born in Edinburgh in 1863, w...

Twice a day I pass the tiny pond. It can't be more than fifteen yards long and less than that across. There's an island in the middl...

The M Press has released a fine new collection of eight stories by Elizabeth Hand, the author of Winterlong, Mortal Love , and the forthcomi...

It wasn't that late, just a little after five, but on that evening in the last days of November it was already dark. There was too much ...

They may have come from the north, those first ones, passing along the shore of the great deep lake and into the marshes between the mountai...

A bonfire on a bare hill, whipped high by the wind. High clouds and a moon with no mercy. In the shadows apart from the blaze, scattered voi...

One The Humours of Planxty , Leagues O'Toole's collective biography of the Irish trad quartet has finally been released, a year aft...

See update (December 2020). This was the unlikely name of a Celtic music ensemble that came together in 1975 at the California Instit...

It's not always bird song. Sometimes it's traffic on the street below, the first gray light reflecting off stone façades. The fevers...

When we doused our lamps and went to sleep the great ship was still moored at the dock. From the windows of our houses along the harborside,...

My morning commute, of late, is a fifteen-minute drive, mostly on back roads through suburban woods. About halfway out a stream comes out of...

There is a story by Jorge Luis Borges called “El milagro secreto” (“The Secret Miracle”). It concerns a Czech writer, Jaromir Hladík, who is...

In brief, the story of Robert Walser is more or less as follows. He was born in Switzerland in 1878, apprenticed in a bank in his teens, tri...

When this slim volume was published in 1982, it was marketed on the jacket flap as a novel, which is the one thing it isn't , at least i...

Once inside, past the vestibule and the women taking admission, the room is smaller than he expected, and before long it is filled with peop...

I really didn't know what to expect with this one. Whisper of the Heart was the first (and I think only) feature film directed by Yoshi...

We can draw back. You can come with your numberless armies, with your machines, but we will have moved on ahead of you. Even when you think ...

Three versions of an incident from the Confucian Analects, Book 18, chapter 6. First, the translation by James Legge (1815-1897); the itali...