Dreamers Rise

The wealthy amateur Grent Wayl invited me to his New York house for an evening's diversion... I picked up this volume in the Strand Book...

From an interview with Harry Mathews: INTERVIEWER Did Ashbery introduce you to any writers whose work you did read? MATHEWS Yes, thanks to J...

Thomas Ott is a Swiss artist and graphic novelist whose work consists largely of wordless images rendered with scratchboard and whose tastes...

"This singular being, whose nationality is unknown, converses with no one and wanders forlornly without a seeming motive, or definite o...

He drove south in steady rain as night fell. The radio was staticky from distant lightning and when the station began to fade in and out he ...

By now, the status of the airship as an emblem of a kind of alternative, softer version of modern technological development is a well-establ...

Things seem to be happening so fast of late -- governments falling, state houses under occupation -- that it can be hard to know what to mak...

Ganonoque, Ontario, 1940

She never knew her mother's family and had few memories of her father, none of them distinct. When she was four years old he had walked ...

This Puffin picture book, which was published in the mid-1940s, is by the husband-and-wife team of Margaret and Alexander Potter. The human ...

While trying to scan some photographs from an old paperback I was having issues with pixelation. Rather than try to fix the problem (and not...

Just ahead of dawn the young sentry in the lobby of the interior ministry, bored and sleepy after yet another overnight shift alone, heard t...

Jules Shear has been around the music business for more than two decades, having composed several songs that became at least minor hits for ...

The Cremorne McAuley Mission, at 104 West 32nd Street near Sixth Avenue, New York. The engraving, which probably dates from around 1883-84, ...

I first read this novel in 1993, the year it was published in the US by Knopf, but the copyright date of the Czech edition, Soudce z milosti...

Like Ivan Klíma himself, the narrator of the "The Tightrope Walkers," the fourth and final story in this 1985 collection, has spe...

If someone would like to translate these books for me as a personal favor I'd be really quite grateful. Thanks. Ivan Klíma, My Mad Centu...

Tony Judt : We often find ourselves asserting or assuming that the distinctive feature of modernity is the individual: the unreducible subj...

The second annual retrospective of the year's postings at this address. The Frogs' Discovery When the Money Was Gone The Assault of ...