Dreamers Rise

Not Joni Mitchell's tune from Hejira, but a very different song by Corinne West , performed here with Kelly Joe Phelps . The pair (ar...

Do certain books exist largely to remind us of our own intellectual inadequacies? If so, this one will do for me. So many writers I admire h...

The city's elongated central plaza occupied a kind of plateau, partly natural and partly sculpted out of the hill by human hands. A park...

He awoke at first light, dressed at once, and went out to find a newspaper. Overnight the temperature had dropped to within a few degrees of...

This space having been notably deficient in color of late, I will try to atone with these scans of one of the most visually dazzling books I...

The pension recommended by the waitress was only two blocks away, down one of the little side streets that led off the square. The street -...

He walked upriver along the promenade for a few blocks, until he came to the bottom of a broad street that wound steeply up through the city...

As the climb across the bridge turned into a descent he turned his gaze onto the city that lay ahead. Beginning at a broad promenade that pa...

By mid-afternoon he was driving through a sinuous valley that wove through a range of low, rounded hills. On the summits and slopes the leav...

Artwork by Richard Doyle from The Scouring of the White Horse by Thomas Hughes. These illustrations are not in the copy I have, which is th...

“The illusory emptiness ...” – K The long, low ferry, illuminated only by a single lantern that rattled on its bow, slowly drew into shore, ...

German postage stamps, 1923. The highest denomination here: 20,000,000,000 marks. (That one must have been for Special Delivery.) The first ...

I was already finding the repetitive images in these stamps a little disturbing even before I figured out what they were. The topography in ...

Below are some examples of notgeld (emergency money), issued c.1918-1922 by a number of German cities and other public and private entities...

Some seasonally appropriate images by the printmaker Kawase Hasui (1883 – 1957), via the extensive online galleries of the Los Angeles Coun...

The men picked their way gingerly down the side of the ridge, traversing through the snow in broad snowshoes made of hard white ash, steadyi...

Illustrations by Frederick Richardson from L. Frank Baum's Queen Zixi of Ix (1905). The Roly-Rogues live high in the mountains above th...