Dreamers Rise

The copyright page of this little book, which consists of fifteen paintings by Julio Silva accompanied by texts by Julio Cortázar, suggests ...

A couple of footnotes to my last post , on Kayano Shigeru's Our Land Was A Forest. Kayano devotes one chapter of his memoir to his work...

About all I knew about this book when I bought it was what was implied in the title: Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir. The author, Kay...

Cortázar's last novel, assuming one doesn't count A Certain Lucas, and his last book for Pantheon, appeared in the US in 1978. The ...

I think this is the best of the Pantheon Cortázar jackets. The designer is again Kenneth Miyamoto, who had created the jacket for 62: A Mode...

This dust jacket is so similar in style and lettering to the one used for Hopscotch that you'd think it would have to be by George Sal...

Paul Blackburn and Cortázar were exchanging correspondence about the translation of this book of whimsical stories and fables as early as 1...

The idea of translating selections from Cortázar's work must have been in Paul Blackburn's mind at least from April 1958, when the ...

In the final paragraph of a letter to Paul Blackburn written from Vienna in September 1961, Cortázar shared a bit of news with his agent and...

The first of Cortázar's books to appear in English, The Winners (Los premios) was published by Pantheon in 1965 in a translation by El...

Damn, he thinks, what a firetrap this place is. They must have paid somebody off for sure to let this club open at all, a flight of narrow i...

Her father was an immigrant from Austria and never shook his accent, though he would never speak or read German again from the day he set fo...

At first sight these selections from the Aventura series ("the Vintage Library of Contemporary World Literature") may just seem li...

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...