Dreamers Rise

Without really intending to, I seem to be following the course of the French novel in reverse chronological order, which, if you ignore th...

The fifth annual retrospective of the year's postings at this address. H. N. Werkman Borges and Xul Solar Echoes of War Dark B...

Yale University's Beinecke Library has announced the acquisition and authentication of a 304-page manuscript said to be the earliest ...

Hard on the heels of his 2012 CD Le fou , (which is currently up for a Grammy), the Louisiana singer and songwriter Zachary Richard ...

A time comes when you no longer can say: my God. A time of total cleaning up. A time when you no longer can say: my love. Because love ...

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...