Dreamers Rise

And here we have the tailor and inventor Franz Reichelt, on February 4, 1912, the day he leapt off the Eiffel Tower. Just looking at him, ...

Next to Me by The Yellow Hope Project The Yellow Hope is the stage name of the singer, songwriter, guitarist, and applied mathematician Ar...

I haven't been able to determine whether "Cara Mamma," the Primo Levi story from which the following excerpts are taken, has b...

I had never heard of David Francey until a few weeks ago, but already I'm a fan. I wake to the radio morning news Just as ...

As the seventh and longest of the eight parts of The Thibaults draws to a close, armies have been mobilized, fighting has broken out acros...

Americas Society in Manhattan is currently hosting an exhibition devoted to the friendship between Jorge Luis Borges and his older compat...

From the shore all that can be seen in the darkness is the flicker of lanterns on the long, low boat. The river's waters are moon-warm, ...

Alston W. Purvis's volume in Yale's Monographics series brought this interesting Dutch printmaker to my attention. Hendrik Werkma...

Above is one of a series of brief animated shorts entitled Legendy Staré Prahy . This one is called "O neviňátkách z židovského hř...

Update (2021): Many of the links below are now broken. There's a lot of hand-wringing these days about how the old model of compensatin...

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...