Dreamers Rise

Two nights after I caught the Vulgar Boatmen show at Martyrs' I headed out to Berwyn, Illinois, on the western outskirts of Chicago, be...

The band known as the Vulgar Boatmen is based in Indiana. They don't play many gigs, and in fact as far as I know they basically don...

From Jude Isabella's article "From Prejudice to Pride," about the history and current state of the Ainu, in the online Hakai ...

"In response to the question 'Why do you play such strange chords, Mr. Monk?' he once told a disc jockey, 'Those easy chor...

It's drizzling today as I write these words, but the woods have been dry for weeks, and with the days getting shorter and the temperatur...

Like many in my generation, I grew up knowing the works of Jules Verne primarily through Hollywood adaptations — mostly bad ones — and comic...

Narceus americanus Do millipedes dream? This one wasn't moving when I found it draped over a dead twig this morning. Its head (to t...

I was walking on a quiet back street in the next town north. Some twenty feet up in the branches of a great oak that rose up next to the si...

It's funny how the world is inside of nothing. I mean, you have your heart and your soul inside of you. Babies are inside of their mot...

More information on DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, can be found here .

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 ...