Dreamers Rise

I just learned from Charles Simic's notice on the website of the New York Review of Books that the poet Russell Edson died earlier th...

Paweł Pawlikowski's Ida is my kind of film: spare, understated, sensitively directed, small in scope but firmly anchored in its time ...

Around the beginning of the 20th century a marriage took place between two nascent media: the postcard, which was becoming the source of an...

The Gloaming — Iarla Ó Lionáird (vocals), Thomas Bartlett (piano), Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (hardanger fiddle), Martin Hayes (violin/fiddle...

I few months ago I signed up for a year's worth of New Directions' Poetry Pamphlets and (prose) Pearls, two series of chapbooks from...

The first snows of December haven't yet fallen on the dirty streets of lower Manhattan, but already there's a chill in the air. Th...

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 ...