Dreamers Rise

Winter can be a frustrating time for the saunterer, but now and then you get a lucky break. On a mild Sunday afternoon in January I put the...

Winter mornings, waiting for dawn. (But then with the streetlight right outside the window it's never truly dark.) John Steinbeck and E...

A scene from Paweł Pawlikowski's Cold War, the follow-up to his Oscar-winning Ida from five years ago, which was one of my favorite mo...

The committee for 2018 has officially concluded its final report. And good-bye to all that.

Art by Tom Gauld . Hat tip to Tororo . Update: A memorial notice published in the New York Times on December 23, 2018, may contain a refe...

Vera Brittain: When I was a girl at St. Monica's and in Buxton, I imagined that life was individual, one's one affair; that the eve...

For a couple of years when I was a kid my father and I used to traipse through the woods on what had once been farmland, looking for old fou...

Charles Morgan: In each instant of their lives men die to that instant. It is not time that passes away from them, but they who recede from...

David W. Blight: Over more than fifty years, 1841-1894, Douglass sat for approximately 160 photographs and wrote some four essays or addr...

From Regarding Wave

Reservoir views, Halloween morning. The sharp-eyed may notice a passing bird or two in some of the images below.

Adam Serwer, writing in The Atlantic : Ordinarily, a politician cannot be held responsible for the actions of a deranged follower. But ordin...

Image credit: The Dallas Holocaust Museum, via the website of Syracuse Cultural Workers, which notes, "This powerful artwork is a s...

What to listen to when you're out driving before dawn, and the streetlights are lit up because it's never really dark anymore, and...

The poem below was printed in a local newspaper in 1966. As the name of the poet would mean nothing to anyone who didn't know her perso...

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...