Dreamers Rise

When I was a kid I lived in a neighborhood that overlooked a lake, and when we had nothing to do my friends and I would sometimes go down th...

Lowry Hamner and Jon Sholle playing a Blind Boy Fuller tune; Mt. Kisco, NY, November 2013. Video by Frank Matheis from thecountryblues....

A commemorative broadside issued by Coffee House Press in 2011. Click image to read the poem.

She had no idea what animals were about. They were creatures. They were not human. She supposed that their functions were defined by the siz...

Congratulations to Alice Munro, the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. The limited-edition chapbook shown here, which contains ...

In spite of the title and its subject — the British traveler, wartime SOE operative, and writer Patrick Leigh Fermor — this little volume ...

The Czech writer Ivan Klíma, now in his early eighties, has survived the German occupation of his native land, during which he and his fam...

The preferred reading matter of the Mexican writer and photographer Juan Rulfo, as described in Luis Harss & Barbara Dohmann's Into ...

My impression is that, with some salutary exceptions, contemporary graphic novelists tend either to focus on personal traumas or strike ou...

— In Devon, he assures her, lived a man who experimented in dousing and other devilment. He found by means of his dousing pendulum that som...

Cal heated a tin of beans and tasted himself slice after slice of bread at the fire. He fell asleep and when he awoke it was dark. He rubb...

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...