Dreamers Rise

I know next to nothing about the group called the everybodyfields except that they popped up about a decade ago, made three records that ...

How many times has this happened? I'm out in a restaurant somewhere, hanging out with friends, and suddenly a song I've never heard ...

Translated, with permission, from Tororo's French original at A Nice Slice of Tororo Shiru . The year 2014 has been decreed the año Co...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Julio Cortázar (in the suburbs of Brussels, August 26th, 1914, just days into the Ge...

Burnside Park in Providence, Rhode Island currently sports an installation of rotatable signpost sculptures, including the one shown here, ...

This hand-printed calendar was produced by the Japanese katazome (stencil-dyeing) master Keisuke Serizawa, whose mark can be seen just belo...

Call it an urban legend or what you will: here's a twice-told tale that only acquired its full impact years after the events it purports...

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...