Dreamers Rise

Amar, a Moroccan adolescent, hides out on the roof while the house he has been staying in is raided by the French, who are looking for memb...

Carnival, September 2018.

A case of a ghastly linguistic muddle involving, in one sentence, no fewer than five languages: Euclides da Cunha, who was a fanatical re...

I'm walking the dog home across a city that bears little relation to the real one, as if Robert Moses had succeeded in his nefarious sch...

The CD insert for a radio play by Peter Belgvad and Iain Chambers, from the limited-edition version of The Peter Blegvad Bandbox . Astut...

Chris Cutler's ReR Megacorp has just released a snazzy boxed set bringing together the four albums that Peter Blegvad has recorded for ...

Images for a prospective re-reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , July 2018. It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld...

These are not normal circumstances. Nancy LeTourneau: What we are watching is a complete reorienting of the foreign policy of the United S...

The longer days of late have meant that I'm spending more time outside, often in the early hours before the temperature hits the 90s, an...

You've got a lie underneath your tongue where it can't be seen 'Cause you wanna put the truth on a guillotine But you might as...

Former Border Control agent Francisco Cantú , writing in the New York Times: No matter what version of hell migrants are made to pass thr...

I've always had a soft spot for this song, but I've never seen this live version before. Tom Paxton is now eighty and has recorded ...

The narrator of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants visits a shuttered sanatorium for mental patients in Ithaca, New York, seeking traces of a...

Along the trail, May 2018.

In the office on the 73rd floor, high above the city, the president of the company passes me a handful of letters to mail and a note with t...

Pablo Neruda: It is very appropriate, at certain times of the day or night, to deeply observe objects at rest: the wheels that have covered ...

Two translations of the last lines of Pablo Neruda's "Ars Poetica," from Residence on Earth : but the truth is, suddenly, the ...

I have loved you from a distance Loved you from up close Like the tiny frog that breathes I can nestle in your cloak I'm a bit o...

Leonora Carrington: I had received a royal summons to pay a call on the sovereigns of my country. The invitation was made of lace, framing ...

Elena Poniatowska's Leonora is a biographical novel that closely follows the eventful life of her longtime friend, the artist and write...