Dreamers Rise

All was quiet the next morning. There were a few heavy clouds along the horizon that he thought might portend a storm, but the next time he ...

At first glance, the life of Roger Casement, the British diplomat turned Irish nationalist who was executed for treason in 1916, might not s...

At the beginning of the seventh week all communication with Z---- was broken off again, this time for three days. It resumed promptly and wi...

He was the last one left. Just before decamping the legionnaires loaded up the barrels of gunpowder that remained onto carts, piled on all t...

Possibly it's the end of the world, she's not the one to say, but if so as luck would have it the end of the world finds her in a ci...

Until about ten days ago I had no idea that Andy Irvine had a new record in the works, and now here it is, whisked over the seas from Irela...

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...