Dreamers Rise

In 1562 Diego de Landa, a Franciscan monk resident in the Yucatán, gathered together all the Maya codices and images he could locate and bur...

For a while after I retired from teaching one of my former colleagues invited me back once a year to give a guest lecture at a summer semina...

The pieces in this little volume have all been republished in subsequent collections of Bowles's stories, but I still prefer to read the...

Drive Somewhere: The Saga of the Vulgar Boatmen, Fred Uhter's hour-long documentary about what Robert Christgau reportedly once called ...

According to several ancient accounts, in a temple on a remote peninsula on the Gulf of Messenia there once stood a statue that possessed th...

It's been raining since morning. The day broke gray and cold, and the overnight mist off the lake, instead of burning off quickly as the...

Joseph Conrad: These handsome uniform editions of Joseph Conrad with introductions by Morton Dauwen Zabel were published by Anchor Books i...

The woman in apartment 4A has been roasting a chicken, which is nearly done. She lowers the oven door, pulls the rack out halfway with a pot...

Jorge Luis Borges had already made a name for himself, at least in Argentine literary circles, as a poet and essayist years before he turned...

This wasn't quite the version of this song I went looking for, but having found it I have to admit it's not half bad. Helio, a veter...

A man stands alone on a street corner — but to say he's alone isn't true, in fact he's surrounded by a swirl of pedestrians and ...

I'm not big on boating and I've never had much of an urge to read any of these children's adventure stories, although I confess ...

Family in tow, Lew Ney (Luther Emanuel Widen), writer, printer, and tireless self-promoter, takes an excursion into the hinterlands and vis...

And I am my father, and I stop, pull an orange from the pocket and peel it, throw the peelings in the snow, pick up my gun and ski back home...

Who cares if old age comes, what is old age? Your shoulders are holding up the world and it's lighter than a child's hand. Wars, fam...

At daybreak they stopped at the ocean Took a walk as they watched the sun rise In the palm of God's hand They rolled in the sand As...

It was nearing dusk as he descended the steps into the city, and in the distance he could see the first scattered lights coming on across th...

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...