Dreamers Rise

Wraiths Many years ago, when I was a kid, I remember someone demonstrating how you could catch a frog by peeling off the red cellophane stri...

(As far as I can tell, there has never been an official English-language version of this story, which originally appeared in Final del juego...

[Back to Part I] 11. I had begun cobbling together a story from raw materials that originally had nothing to do with each other. On the on...

1. A few nights ago I began reading a slender volume by Alberto Manguel entitled With Borges. In it, Manguel relates how, as a teenager wor...

James Laughlin started his career as publisher in 1936 with the first New Directions in Prose & Poetry, but in addition to the flagship...

I picked up this thin volume of stories, the cover of which is now rather yellowed and soiled, in the Strand Bookstore sometime in 1976 or 1...

The following discussion of a Julio Cortázar short story was written in 1980 as part of a longer project. At some point in the future I may ...

One day when I was in my late teens, while wandering in my local library I found a copy of Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz's The Gr...

Last night I drove with my daughter to a club to hear a musician and singer whom I've long admired and whose visits to this country are ...

The first edition of Julio Cortázar's novel Rayuela (Hopscotch) was published by Editorial Sudamericana in Buenos Aires in June 1963. D...