Dreamers Rise

Sunday morning reservoir views.

The Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca recounts an incident that was related to him by Native Americans he encountered during his l...

Jeopardy clue: "John & Priscilla Alden lie in the U.S.A.'s oldest maintained cemetery, which like a poem about the couple, is ...

"The history and œconomy of these vary curious Insects are (I think) not well known — they appear to manage all their Affairs, with as ...

"As the lodges afforded so little shelter, people began to die, and five Christians quartered on the coast were driven to such extremit...

The Paris Review has inaugurated a new blog, Pinakothek . Written by Luc Sante , it's devoted to "miscellaneous visual strata of ...

Her sons are out of college and living lives of their own by the time her husband leaves. She could stay on in the house but every room has ...

Alice Munro: This lucky woman, Joan, with her job and her lover and her striking looks—more remarked upon now than ever before in her life...

Charles Wesley, one of the founding fathers of Methodism, is said to have penned some 6,500 hymns, among them "Hark, the Herald Ange...

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...