Dreamers Rise

These two postcards were mailed five years apart, the first to an address in Kutná Hora (or Kuttenberg) in Bohemia and the second from Kutn...

One of Roger Martin du Gard's first published works was a dissertation on the ruins of the abbey of Jumièges in Normandy, and it's ...

Three women in elaborate hats, two men in railway uniforms, a third man — and a very large dog. Real Photo postcard, location unidentified b...

After a long illness, Oscar Thibault, the grand paterfamilias of the Thibault family, has died, and among his papers his son Antoine finds i...

Dear Dr. Wight, How have you been since I left M. G. H.? I have arrived at Yokohama at the beginning of last June and I am now with all...

Oscar Thibault, the grand Catholic autocrat who looms over the first six parts of Roger Martin du Gard's Les Thibault, has finally died...

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...