Dreamers Rise

As far as I can tell there is no "biography" of Julio Cortázar in English, though there are any number of book-length critical stu...

Julio Cortázar's Historias de cronopios y de famas, a volume of short, unclassifiable whimsical fables and texts, was published by Fran...

Evolutionary biology and biogeography are basically outside of my bailiwick here, not because I'm not interested in those fields (I am) ...

Alfagura began issuing this five-volume expanded edition of Julio Cortázar's letters in February 2012, but it's taken me a bit to ...

I approach the heart of the city down a narrow, winding road that weaves among thick settlements of low buildings and clusters of trees. (I ...

The letter below was sent to the American writer Toby Olson on October 1, 1971. A few weeks earlier the poet Paul Blackburn, Julio Cortázar...

In A Medieval Garden: Instrumental and Vocal Music of the Middle Age and Renaissance by Stanley Buetens Lute Ensemble I bought a copy of ...

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 ...