Dreamers Rise

The larger the scale, the more predictable the world is. The planets and stars move on determined courses, the earth revolves, day becomes ...

Because summer means going to the beach, and going to the beach means gulls.

Until relatively recently, the availability of foreign-language reading material in the US was a bit hit-or-miss, unless you happened to liv...

The writer Charles Simmons, who died two years ago, wrote a half-dozen novels, of which I've read only two. As far as I know he never p...

It's very difficult, at least for me, to make out the long inscription on this Real Photo postcard, but the language is apparently Germ...

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 ...