Dreamers Rise

Henry Fielding's novel Jonathan Wild bears the full title The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great . It may at f...

William Hogarth's satirical engravings often commented on social issues like gin drinking, popular credulity, and misguided marriages, b...

Archipelago Books in Brooklyn has announced, in its latest catalog , the forthcoming publication of a new translation by Bill Johnston of a...

John Livingston Lowes: The size of the albatross ... has long been a stone of stumbling to matter-of-fact souls, who protest that Coleridge ...

Most editions of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" published today include Coleridge's marginal glosses, which have come to be...

I've been re-reading Rafi Zabor's great jazz novel The Bear Comes Home again, so out of curiosity I decided to see what I could fin...

I found a copy of this chapbook on the giveaway shelf in our local library and brought it home, knowing only that the author, Derek Mahon,...

A quick hopscotch from Sonny Rollins to Lope de Vega and back again. When I think of Sonny Rollins the first thing that comes to mind isn...

Fourteen years ago, during a week in Iceland, I visited the Listasafn Íslands (National Gallery of Iceland), which was then housing an exhib...

It's become a bit of a commonplace in contemporary natural history memoirs that the subject can't only be the natural world; there h...

Henry Fielding: Booth, as the reader may be pleased to remember, was a pretty good master of the classics; for his father, though he desig...

Thomas Keightley: "Another wonderful thing," says Ralph of Coggeshall, "happened in Suffolk, at St. Mary's of the Wolf-...

I found this tiny red eft in the street in front of our house one rainy morning a few days ago. It was torpid and I didn't much like its...

I've probably read Jorge Luis Borges's short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" at least a half-dozen times over the years...

Tobias Smollett's novels have been on my list of things to get around to reading, so when I found this edition of The Expedition of Hump...

I first studied Spanish in junior high school. There were, as I remember, four languages you could select: French, Spanish, German, and Lati...

The former Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski died on February 20th at the age of eighty-nine. Mazeroski, who retired as a pla...

In 1967, Gabriel García Márquez and several other Latin American writers concocted a plan for a volume in which each participant would under...

Two recent publishing events revisit the phenomenon of the so-called Latin American literary "Boom" of the 1960s, in particular hi...

The city is behind me. In daylight, with no lights visible, the wind and the breakers cutting off all sound, one might think it uninhabited,...