Dreamers Rise

I have to confess to my shame that until now I have never read Don Quixote in its entirety, or even close to its entirety, not in Spanish a...

It will be dawn soon. The first light of morning will drift down through the lattice of glass and steel above my head, and as it does the sh...

This postcard of the Connecticut River at Greenfield, Massachusetts was postmarked in nearby Turners Falls on January 29, 1909 and sent to a...

We seem to have an innate need to tell stories, even when the raw material is lacking. I suppose that it's part of our way of making sen...

Here are four brief animations based on Julio Cortazar's Rayuela (Hopscotch) . I can't really follow the Portuguese translation but ...

Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge reportedly worked on this recording project off and on for twelve years, which works out to about two minut...

A post by Gustavo Ribeiro at Blog Morellianas brings news of a forthcoming, vastly expanded edition of Julio Cortázar's letters, replac...

I have spun off a separate blog, The Rotograph Project , to serve as a virtual gallery for the display and interpretation of the American vi...

This photographic postcard, most likely created between 1907-1914, depicts a family group against the backdrop of a snowy field. The identit...

These receipts from The Williams & Guion steamship company were made out to a young Irish immigrant named Margaret Nagle for sums she se...

This postcard of the Brooklyn Bridge and the adjacent waterfront, published by the Rotograph Co., was postmarked in 1905. Offering a view of...

The modest-looking covers of this 80-page paperback conceal a number of curiosities and mysteries within and without, starting with the iden...

The third annual retrospective of the year's postings at this address. Swedish Summer Flying slowly Pleasures of the Macabre Permutation...

"The little tintypes, and their more elegant cousins the ambrotypes and daguerrotypes, provide the oldest direct connection to the visu...

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...