Dreamers Rise

A few years ago when I was doing some volunteer tutoring, one of my students was a young man from Guatemala (I'll call him S., though ...

"The circumstances of my birth weren't extraordinary at all but they were a bit colorful, because it was a birth that took place in...

Every morning for the past few weeks I've been taking advantage of near-perfect weather and my early-rising habits to go for a long walk...

There are countless covers of this Dan Penn / Chips Moman tune, some of them very good ones, but to me this live performance by Richard and ...

Our species: an interesting idea, but poorly executed. Given the inescapable fact of our propensity for cruelty, how is anything else not ...

Having read this short novel by Alejo Carpentier in Alfred Mac Adam's translation many years ago, I cockily told myself that I would be ...

Peter Case is kicking off a Kickstarter campaign for his next CD, HWY 62, which is scheduled to be released in 2015. Details here .

These two faded and stained studio portraits of African-American couples were taken sometime in the early decades of the twentieth century...

Chile, the slender nation that lies along the Pacific margins of South America, has faced more than its share of disasters, natural and ot...

Kyūsaku Yumeno was the pen name of a prolific Japanese writer who died in 1936 and whose work is apparently relatively little-known in the...

Here are four undated photographs of the same young man, all probably taken within a few minutes of each other. There's a severity to hi...

Peter Case at the Mug and Brush Barber Shop in Columbus Ohio, May 10, 2014. "Cold Trail Blues" originally appeared on Flying S...

June 5, 1989 . (Photo by Jeff Widener.)

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 ...