Dreamers Rise

Miscellaneous photos, all taken this spring within a mile of downtown, of some of our distant cousins in the Being business. From top: u...

Well, they say Pat Garrett has got your number So sleep with one eye open when you slumber 'Cause every little sound might be thund...

Though I never really gave much thought to it at the time, I grew up in a region whose contours were profoundly shaped by the requirements...

KK (his full name is Kristján Kristjánsson, and his initials are pronounced "cow cow") is an Icelandic singer-songwriter whose ...

From "Station Island," II. The narrator converses with the shade of William Carleton: 'The angry role was never my vocation,...

Walking a woodland trail the other day through an area with a number of dramatic rock outcroppings, I zeroed in on this particular boulder i...

A man accidentally time-travels back to 1959, and is arrested on suspicion of counterfeiting when he attempts to buy lunch with a five-dolla...

I'm in the early stages of a long slow re-read of Cortázar's Hopscotch, and this time I'm making a point of annotating some of ...

"At the extreme, if climate change wreaks havoc on the social and economic fabric of global linchpins like Mexico City, warns the write...

The attractions: solitude and secrecy—the orchard in the hills like a kingdom, the forbidden manufacture of liquor a prowess all my own, ble...

This morning I crossed paths with a foraging possum. I'm not sure which of us was the more startled (the trail was otherwise deserted),...

Miscellaneous midwinter surface finds.

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...