Dreamers Rise

The French text of Les Thibaults is readily available in a three-volume paperback edition, but I chose instead to read at least the first...

This postcard of Stockholm was mailed from that city in 1903 by one Annie Sundberg and addressed to Mademoiselle Candelaria Benítez Inglott...

Much of La belle saison, the third part of Roger Martin du Gard's massive novel Les Thibaults, centers around the relationship betw...

Una novela de Galdós, qué idea. Cuando no era Vicki Baum era Roger Martin du Gard, y de ahí el salto inexplicable a Tristán L'Hermit...

Joseph E. Corrigan, the city magistrate who presided over the farcical legal proceedings reported in my last post , was a prominent New Y...

My next two posts will revisit two peripherally connected news stories, one comic and one tragic. The first is recorded in The Fourth Estate...

At least thirty-five years ago I greedily devoured this 871-page translation of a novel by the 1937 Nobel Prize-winning novelist Roger Ma...

Lowry Hamner's an old friend, but since I hadn't heard that he was working on a new record it was an unexpected treat to find out...

Bruno Schulz: My father never tired of glorifying this extraordinary element — matter. "There is no dead matter," he taught us...

How do you write the history of something whose very nature consists of being unrecorded? How do you describe the pool of the unknown out of...

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...