Dreamers Rise

The fourth annual retrospective of the year's postings at this address. Money Home The Rotograph Project Two Group Portraits Ne...

Postcard reproduction of a poster for Stephen and Timothy Quay's short film Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988). The letters "R. W....

A song by the young Icelandic musician Ásgeir Trausti . The title, I'm told, means something like "Summer Guest," and the song...

From today's New York Times : Each slaughter of innocents seems to get more appalling. A high school. A college campus. A movie theate...

I borrowed a copy of this brief study of the Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti because I was curious to see what Mario Vargas Llosa wou...

I don't know if these are actual covers for the catalog of the Vilnius Book Festival or just posters, but either way I am in awe. The...

Leszek Kołakowski: In short, the word “happiness” does not seem applicable to divine life. But nor is it applicable to human beings. This is...

According to the label, these katazome (stencil-dyed) calendar pages were "made by Haruo Kuriyama in Kyoto" and distributed ...

I found revisiting The Plague as La peste considerably more difficult than re-reading The Counterfeiters as Les faux-monnayeurs. I sai...

When I was in my late teens I went through an intense phase of devouring every single page of modern French literature I could get my hand...

Personally, I'm all for heading for the nearest high ground, but I do like this new song by Zachary Richard . The CD version of this so...

Questo misero modo tegnon l’anime triste di coloro che visser sanza ’nfamia e sanza lodo. Mischiate sono a quel cattivo coro de li ange...

Another video from Gonwards, the upcoming Peter Blegvad - Andy Partridge - Stuart Rowe collaboration, releasing October 22nd from Ape Hou...

André Gide (in the voice of Édouard): To strip away from the novel every element that does not specifically belong to the novel. Just as p...

I saw most of this "documentary" by Etienne de France this summer at the Listasafns Íslands (National Gallery of Iceland) i...

I didn't really know what to expect with this one since I only knew Amy Rigby from three songs, which was exactly two and a half song...

A video sneak peek at Gonwards, the upcoming Peter Blegvad - Andy Partridge - Stuart Rowe collaboration, due out October 22nd from Ape Ho...

To follow up my earlier post on Héctor Abad Faciolince's memoir El olvido que seremos, I should mention the same author's more rec...

Nunca acepté resignado la muerte de mi hermana, ni nunca podré aceptar con tranquilidad el asesinato de mi padre. Es cierto que él, de algun...

An online journal called The Quarterly Conversation is devoting a good part of its Fall 2012 issue (#29) to a special feature entitled An A...