Dreamers Rise

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Mike Waterson's songs on Bright Phoebus, like the title track or "Rubber Band," which contains such whimsical lines as ...

Clavulinopsis Coral reefs aren't doing all that well these days, and in any case there are none within range of a day trip where I...

Some practical advice for eclipse-watchers, from Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge.

In memory of Heather D. Heyer .

A beautiful, melancholy song with a sinister twist of child sacrifice in the third verse, "The Scarecrow" first appeared on an LP ...

Every novel is philosophical, in that it consciously or (more usually) unconsciously embodies a theory of being. We know that this is true...

Guy Davenport, on family expeditions to gather arrowheads, when he was a child: What lives brightest in the memory of these outings is a Tho...

What I'll be reading this Fall: Mike Wallace's Greater Gotham , the long-awaited sequel to Gotham: A History of New York City to 18...

"On moonless nights he walks over the oozy bog in snowshoes taking time exposures in color of luminous mushrooms. It is the police ch...

Ramaria Amanita Russula parvovirescens Oct. 10, 1858. The simplest and most lumpish fungus has a peculiar interest ...

Pausanias (Book X in Peter Levi's edition) mentions a sibyl named Herophile who prophesied at various sanctuaries, including those at Sa...

Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of John Coltrane. Richard Williams has a brief appreciation at The Blue Moment. Below is a t...

The Chinese critic and activist Liu Xiaobo has died . A related New York Times article by Chris Buckley reflects on the bleak prospects fo...

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 ...