Dreamers Rise

Today is the 99th anniversary of the assassination of Jean Jaurès, the French socialist leader and parliamentarian who had struggled, vali...

It's February 1848, and Frédéric Moreau, the idle young hero of Flaubert's Sentimental Education , paces up and down the sidewalk,...

Three more Real Photo postcards, possibly from western Pennsylvania. The one above has the following inscription on the reverse of the c...

The images on this page reproduce part of a group of Real Photo postcards that may have originated in western Pennsylvania. The one above...

This summer marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Julio Cortázar's Rayuela (Hopscotch) by Editorial Sudamericana, and ne...

It's a bit disconcerting, perhaps, to reflect that the oldest story in this collection is now more than sixty-five years old. Gabriel ...

The waitress spread a cocktail napkin on the glass tabletop with a practiced flourish, then swiftly clanked a gin and tonic down on it befor...

Coincidence or fate put an advance copy of Jean Echenoz's fine, slender novel about French soldiers in the Great War into my hands jus...

It is springtime in Paris, 1918. The youngest of the Thibaults, Jacques, has been dead since the beginning of the war; his older brother, A...

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...