Dreamers Rise

Cartoonist Chris Ware, in the New York Review of Books , on Krazy Kat's banjo: I may be in the minority here, but I really think that...

Washington Irving's drowsy little village is now a busy multi-ethnic town, and today some 500 people from Sleepy Hollow and neighboring ...

"Succeeding for me is how I can get my revenge. I want to break the stereotype of us being here taking jobs away and not helping the ec...

"It was a real neighborhood, and a black experience no one talks about, because it wasn't filled with drugs and it wasn't fille...

The writer Harry Mathews died yesterday. Weirdly, I found out because I looked him up to see what he was up to, well knowing that he was get...

From a New Yorker interview with Judith Thurman , Philip Roth on comparisons between his novel The Plot Against America, which imagined a ...

These photos were taken in and around a tiny dry stream-bed or rill a few minutes' walk from where I live. Partly obscured by fallen tr...

Today, the New York Times has an astonishing series of photos from the nationwide worldwide women's marches of January 21, 2017.

If a man gives up poetry for power, He shall have lots of power. — Mark Strand, "The New Poetry Handbook" For what shall it pr...

A trailer from Brave New Films regarding our prospective Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, who sounds like she'll fit right in with ...

In the eleventh chapter of Jules Verne's Vingt mille lieues sous les mers , the narrator, the noted natural historian Professor Pierre A...

His face each downward held; their mouth the cold, Their eyes express'd the dolour of their heart. "B.R.T.'s Icy Inferno...