Dreamers Rise

Sally Mann: At its most accomplished, photographic portraiture approaches the eloquence of oil painting in portraying human character, but w...

A Mr. Warner, photographer, on reading an account of Emma Jackson in St. Giles's, addressed a letter to Detective Officer James F. Thomp...

What is to be done? Is there anything more exasperating than the cycle of analysis regarding our political situation? How did we get here? ...

Jeopardy clue: "Inscribed on Woody Guthrie's guitar: 'This machine kills' these." Contestant's response: "Wh...

Robert Musil: The administration of this country was carried out in an enlightened, hardly perceptible manner, with a cautious clipping of ...

Julio Cortázar: Everybody knows that the Earth is separated from other heavenly bodies by a variable number of light-years. What few know (i...

"A painting by Jean-Martin Bontoux of King Ubu in Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi, late twentieth century," via The New York Review...

" Cartoonist loses job after image depicting Trump ignoring dead migrants to play golf " (The Independent) . Image by Michael d...

Quoted entirely out of context: Being in a strange land and among strange men and things, meeting with customs and surrounded by circumsta...

This entertaining popular account of the Victorian mania for natural history was published by Jonathan Cape and Doubleday in 1980, and has a...

The printing historian Stephen O. Saxe died on April 27th of this year, according to a memorial notice in the New York Times today (June 1...

An incident that Julio Cortázar (a noted admirer of Verne) would no doubt have appreciated, as related by Alejandro Zambla: I remember how a...

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...