Dreamers Rise

If more proof were needed that the best things often turn up by accident, during a brief ride on a passenger ferry in Reykjavík the captain ...

Thórbergur Thórdarson, or Þórbergur Þórðarson to use the Icelandic form of his name, was born in 1888 on a turf farmstead named Hali in Suða...

The Listasafns Íslands (National Gallery of Iceland) is currently exhibiting a group of some fifteen paintings by an unknown artist or arti...

He found some leftover pizza in the fridge, tossed it into the microwave, and watched it revolve on the glass plate like some slow-motion ju...

The police had cordoned off the sidewalk and were beginning to make arrests. Something in the air was making Héctor’s eyes water, and the co...

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...