Dreamers Rise

Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, when New York City had several excellent Spanish-language bookstores, the numerous volumes of Losada'...

The first few times I looked at this Real Photo postcard, without benefit of magnification, I succumbed to an optical illusion so strong tha...

Our Juggernaut seems to roll by itself over people but there are really men who tend the wheels and engine only a few hours a day and jump o...

Anthony Lee's exemplary microhistory, centered on a shoe factory in North Adams, Massachusetts, begins with a vivid recreation of a pivo...

One of the many interesting revelations of Jonathan Lee's documentary Paul Goodman Changed My Life is that Goodman saw The Empire City,...

Here's a little fable, which, like all fables, isn't really true, although it isn't really untrue either. Once upon a time there...

These two Azo Real Photo postcards date from roughly the same period (c. 1904-1918) and may or may not have any connection with each other. ...

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...