Dreamers Rise

Luc Sante: The game may not be over, but its rules have irrevocably changed. The small has been consumed by the big, the poor have been ev...

The seventh annual retrospective of the year's postings at this address. Visiting professor On the town Spring List American ...

A seasonal song, sort of, in that many of us will be having company over the next few days. The short-lived band heard here, Right to Left...

Luc Sante: The occult forces in the city are always at work, indifferent to rationality, scornful of politics, resentful of urban planning...

Time Change Records in Indiana has just released a 25th-anniversary remastering of the Vulgar Boatmen's You and Your Sister. The Ind...

Note: This post has been updated (September 2019) based on new information from the family. See new post for a photo of Alexandra's s...

8:15 AM, December 11, 2015.

After having read a couple of reviews raving about Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels I decided to try the first volume, and quickly be...

Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne, Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m’attends. J’irai par la forêt, j’irai par la ...

Peter Case has a new album out. Its title, HWY 62 , alludes not only implicitly to Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited but also to the ...

They emerged from the forest footsore, hungry, their panting dogs at their heels. Somewhere at their backs — a few hours, a day at most — th...

This little "Manual of the Water Street Mission" in New York City was published in 1880, and seems to have served both as an int...

María Paz Otuño, writing of the late Spanish novelist Ana María Matute: Her idea of order was her own; with her writings she was very meti...

Rabelais: Bacbuc threw something into the fountain, and suddenly the water began to boil fiercely, as the great cauldron at Bourgueil does w...

A bit of incontrovertible wisdom from Herakleitos, in Guy Davenport's rendering: "We share a world when we are awake; each sleeper ...

This unidentified and undated snapshot shows the effects of time and much handling; it may have been folded in half at some point before bei...

'So you come from Paris,' said Pantagruel. 'And how do you spend your time, you gentlemen students at this same Paris?' ...

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...