Dreamers Rise

This Rotograph postcard of what is now known as the Akin Free Library, located in Pawling, New York, was probably taken during the final sta...

I came across this little group of European cartes de visite in a box in an antique shop for a nominal price and bought the lot of them. Som...

A number of years ago I was invited to deliver a lecture at a summer conference on ethnobotany at the University of Tokyo. It was not my fir...

In the first quarter of the 20th century it gradually dawned on a generation of entrepreneurs and budding media moguls that that there was m...

Marvin Malone , who was the editor of the Wormwood Review for almost its entire long run, sounds like he must have been an interesting pers...

(Found on the body of a partisan)* My Dearest M—, As you are no doubt aware, on the 12th day of this month the invading army, after an exten...

The letter transcribed and reproduced here is part of a small cache of correspondence exchanged between Margaret Nagle or Neagle, a young I...

I revisit many of the stories in these three volumes quite regularly, particularly the first, but lately I've been realizing that I have...

Dear Gustavo , You’ve asked for a few thoughts on how Cortázar is seen in the US. I’m not an academic and I haven’t made any systematic effo...

For most of this summer I've been devoting this space to looking at images and inscriptions from some century-old postcards, trying to ...

These photographic postcards, issued by the Rotograph Co., were sent as New Year's greetings. The sender is unidentified, but the inscri...

This is a moderately interesting postcard view of the City Hall Park in lower Manhattan area looking with the East River and Brooklyn in the...

These four postcards were each sent to unmarried women members of the Bergin family at their address on Canonbury Road in Jamaica, Queens. ...

All eight of the postcards shown here (see previous post ) were published by companies in Sullivan County, New York but have markings indica...