Dreamers Rise

Across that strand of ours the cattle graze Up to their bellies in an early mist And now they turn their unbewildered gaze To where we w...

Julio Cortázar's essay, "Del gesto que consiste en ponerse el dedo índice en la sien y moverlo como quien atornilla y destornilla...

Takashi Sasaki is a retired professor specializing in Spanish philosophy, with a number of translations into Japanese of the works of Unam...

This song began its life on the Vulgar Boatmen 's 1989 debut album You and Your Sister, where it was performed as a full-tilt rocke...

He sought out inconspicuous things that could be only be found by those who already knew that they might be there. He learned that in early ...

Dora Knowlton Ranous's English version of Flaubert's L'Éducation sentimentale doesn't have much to recommend it (other th...

Every autumn the fire department put on a turkey shoot as a fund raiser. No turkeys were involved — or rather there were turkeys but they we...

The children were darting in all directions, in blue Cub Scout uniforms with yellow neckerchiefs if they had them or play clothes if they di...

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...