Dreamers Rise

Are there ticks in Ireland? If so, Seamus Heaney doesn't mention them in his poem about foraging for wild blackberries. Here in Maine t...

Farewell, Glen Hansard, much too soon. (I've just watched Once again. It's even more heartbreaking, now.) More at the Guardian .

I first saw Gillian Welch (and David Rawlings) perform in 1998 at the Towne Crier Café, which was then located in Pawling, NY. The capacity ...

The producers of Time Team have released a 75-minute video covering the excavations at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar , which were conducted o...

Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, murdered by the federal government of the United States in Biddeford, Maine on July 13, 2026. More informa...

As soon as I finished my last post I hauled down my copy of V. S. Pritchett's massive Collected Essays to see what if anything Pritche...

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...