Dreamers Rise

When you really should have bought the book: the Taschen edition of the Augsburg Book of Miracles , published in 2014, is now out of print a...

The tackle creaks as the net is pulled in. On the lantern-lit deck the crew plant their feet and strain at the rope. Spilled out on the b...

Eleanor Clark, on the Oysterman's Cooperative building in Brittany, where "there is just about everything there you could ever need...

Sergio Borschevsky, the translator of Borges, Cortázar, Neruda, García Márquez, and other writers into Ukrainian, is staying put in Kiev wit...

A good friend let me borrow this LP of Scarlatti transcriptions for the guitar when we were in high school and I've always remembered it...

Some news items of potential interest to readers of this space. The translator Edmund Keeley has died. Known for his versions of the wor...

A pastel artwork by Stasys Eidrigevičius, donated by the artist to an auction to benefit Ukrainian refugees, of whom there will be many. Mo...

The post below was posted in a different venue in 2006; I'm dusting it off in honor of Michael Leddy's post at Orange Crate Art. I...

Archaeologist Alan Hardy describes a find that emerged during the excavation of a long barrow in the Berkshire Downs: A book was found w...

This double-view postcard of scenes from Orkney was issued by J. M. Stevenson, a longtime stationer in Kirkwall and Stromness. It also bears...

W. Jeffrey Bolster: Able-bodied seamen versed in “the Mariner’s art” were admittedly a minority among black seamen; but men like Daniel W...

A prim middle-aged woman steps up to the counter and asks if we have any books by the novelist Catherine Cookson. I say I don't think so...

This volume of stories, texts, and illustrations was published by Profile Books in 2003. For a while it seemed to have become scarce, but it...

Above, a page of ads from Barney Rosset's Evergreen Review, Vol. 2. No. 7 (Winter 1959). This was a themed issue devoted to Mexico, but...

Publishing pioneer Jason Epstein has died. At 93, he managed to outlive his obituarist , Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, who died in 2018. Eps...

The revered British folksinger Norma Waterson has died. The Guardian has an obituary and a nice appreciation . Though she recorded contem...

Henry Mayhew: I may mention that in the course of my inquiry into the condition of the fancy cabinet-makers of the metropolis, one elderly...

Henry Mayhew, the great chronicler of 19th-century London's working poor, collected the following tale in the course of an interview wit...

The above illustration by the late French artist Jean-Claude Pertuzé is from a version of a folktale known in French as "Jean de l'...

Let some traveller, on seeing Hermes of Commagene, aged sixteen years, sheltered in the tomb by fate, call out: I give you my greetings, l...