Dreamers Rise

Three installments from Anne Barnetson's droll comic about the adventures of a lupine bookshop clerk. Having served in that role for ma...

Two brilliant pages from Jason Lutes's mammoth graphic novel set in the waning years of the Weimar Republic. Berlin is published ...

Ruth Otis Sawtell & Ida Treat: Our greatest adventure we found at Mérigon. Mérigon, with its face to the sunny roadside and its back to ...

This appealing book is the product of two American women, Ruth Otis Sawtell (1895-1978), a noted anthropologist and academic (and, later, au...

These three slender books by the Guatemalan Jewish writer Eduardo Halfon are published by Libros del Asteroide , a Barcelona-based company...

I had been looking forward to seeing Alfonso Cuarón's Roma as soon as it made it to a local theatre, and it didn't disappoint. I...

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...