Dreamers Rise

This will be a bit of an extended gloss on my previous post , which I devoted to an excerpt from Samuel H. Hadley's Down in Hadley Stree...

Call me a cynic if you like, but I can't help wondering whether there wasn't more to the following story, which can be found in Samu...

Luther Emanuel Widen alias Lew Ney likely rates barely a footnote in American literary history, but there was a time during the 1920s and ...

It was his second morning in the city. He had spent the night in a flophouse and when dawn came collected his things and went out in search ...

Luc Sante: At night sometimes in certain parts of the city, usually in those remaining streets that are left deserted, usually in winter, bu...

From her fourth-story window, open to the breeze, she looks out over the green and silent square. Overnight, without notice, the soldiers ha...

Thanks to a tip from the New York City Fire Museum , I have a tentative identification for Captain Michael E. Graham, whose promotion to Bat...

I don't do it that much anymore, but for many years I made a point of going to as many used book sales as I could get to, and over time ...

Luc Sante: The dead ... are a notoriously perverse and unmanageable lot. They tend not to remain safely buried, and in fact resist all effor...

A number of years ago, before the harbor was dredged and deepened and the entire surrounding district modernized to accommodate container sh...

This hardbound German-language "Golden Jubilee Calendar" was issued in New York in 1898. An item in Publisher's Weekly (Decem...

Evening has come. I have lit my lamp and shut out the night. My Bible lies close at hand on the table by the bed, and in a few moments -- as...

These images -- I believe they're chromolithographs, but don't quote me on it -- are souvenir or advertising cards commemorating the...

The remarkable properties of everyday products, from 19th-century advertising cards.

Two American artists who, working separately, have each adapted traditional Japanese techniques for use in their work. First, Kit Eastman, w...

Werner Herzog: Our civilization doesn't have adequate images. And I think a civilization is doomed or is going to die out like dinosaurs...

The little brook collected somewhere in the hills just out of town. When it reached the state road it trickled in and out of culverts and ca...

New work by Carla Rippey, at El uso de la memoria . Rippey writes: I have to make clear that I use cultural elements from “elsewhere” as an ...

This splendid 1992 volume of photographs, sadly no longer in print, is the work of the American photographer Linda Butler, who has an unca...

The weekend after the burial the relatives came with a van and carted off what they wanted, the things that still had some use in them. They...