Dreamers Rise

One of my favorite moments of the year — the emergence of Monotropa uniflora, familiarly known as Indian pipes. They've waited out the ...

Me father was a counterfeiter, and ran away from justice before I can remember him. There was a lot of us, and they put me with me grandm...

"Novel reading has been fearfully on the increase during the last fifteen or twenty years, and especially in the last ten years; and ...

This little leaflet is just one example of the countless inexpensive evangelical tracts that have been printed and distributed over the ye...

During a recent morning jaunt around a lake in Acadia National Park we came across this snapping turtle hollowing out a nest on the edge of ...

Seaside stencil, June 2017. (I gather there's a Hunger Games reference involved, via Lorde .)

The novelist Charles Simmons has died . I have fond memories of two of his books (there were several others I never got around to): the fair...

(I'm dusting off this old post in honor of Bob Dylan's just-released Nobel Lecture , which, among other things, cites the Odyssey. ...

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),...