Dreamers Rise

Any number of sources will inform you that the classic jazz composition "St. James Infirmary" is derived from an Anglo-America...

There is now a tentative publishing date as well as a cover image for the edition of Austin Reed's 19th-century prison memoir The Life...

My colleagues and I are seated around a picnic table at the edge of a farm field in the countryside. Below us, beneath some trees, is a smal...

In a 2013 post I juxtaposed the self-glorifying funeral instructions left by Oscar Thibault, the patriarch in Roger Martin du Gard's ...

Langston The image above is unlabelled, but knowing that its likely provenance was Oklahoma made it possible to take a guess at its loc...

Guss Crader Finally, a name we can trace; the reverse of this snapshot photograph bears an inscription from one Elder Guss Crader of Jennin...

Sallisaw This photograph may be the pivot of the collection. The image itself has some unusual features (which I'll note shortly), b...

Ancestors? The portion of the apparent family collection that I was able to obtain consists of thirteen photographs in a variety of for...

These photographs represent what are apparently fragments of a single African-American family album or family collection that was recent...

I won't be reading this new translation of Roger Martin du Gard's multi-volume novel Les Thibaults for the very good reason that...

A friend of mine recommended this volume of short stories, by an author whose name was unknown to me, and although I'm perhaps not the e...

THE GRAND PRIEST People of Argos, I say to you that this woman is committing sacrilege. Unhappiness be upon her and on any among you who ...

His life has been taken, but his voice is not stilled. Give the pocket history lesson above a listen. Below is his official biography, comp...

I rounded the corner, walking from one sleepy back street to another, and just for an instant a view opened out, between the trees in their ...

Glenway Wescott: "There were two albums of embossed leather studded with buttons which resembled shoe buttons, and one with cellulo...

Glenway Wescott: "There was a shell on the sideboard, a conch shell in the shape of a horn, which, when held to the ear, repeated the ...

Singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston doesn't exactly flood the market with releases of new material, and Neon Repairman, just out, is on...

The artist and printmaker Annie Bissett has discovered this wonderful bit of found poetry, which she has posted on her Tumblr blog . Adapte...

I've been too busy of late to write anything substantial but not, happily, too busy to read. These three books have very little in commo...

Satori Ediciones in Spain has published its second collection of translations into Spanish of the Japanese writer Izumi Kyōka (1873-1939)...