Dreamers Rise

This postcard "view of the lower town" of Eupen, Belgium, was printed by Kunstverlag Ferdinand Schweitzer in Aachen, across the Ge...

Kahn + Selesnick are at it again, with a new project, Truppe Fledermaus . Worth keeping an eye on. Sly Frank Zappa reference below:

The late Norman Cohn's study of "Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages" is a book I first read...

There were no seats and several people already standing, so she grabbed hold of a strap and planted her feet as the bus lurched forward. She...

The Heald Machine Company no longer exists, but in its heyday it was a major employer in Worcester, Massachusetts and an important manufact...

There was something going on in the park but whatever it was she wasn't in the mood. She walked slowly around the square, barely glancin...

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...