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Cortázar: Of piantados and idos 25 Aug 2013 | 07:29 am
Julio Cortázar's essay, "Del gesto que consiste en ponerse el dedo índice en la sien y moverlo como quien atornilla y destornilla," the title of which translates as something like "On the Gesture that...
Living the disaster 18 Aug 2013 | 07:12 am
Takashi Sasaki is a retired professor specializing in Spanish philosophy, with a number of translations into Japanese of the works of Unamuno and Ortega y Gasset to his credit. For a number of years, ...
Mary Jane (The Vulgar Boatmen) 16 Aug 2013 | 02:57 am
The Vulgar Boatmen, "Mary Jane" (acoustic) This song began its life on the Vulgar Boatmen's 1989 debut album You and Your Sister, where it was performed as a full-tilt rocker and sung, I think (it's ...
Botany 12 Aug 2013 | 06:52 am
He sought out inconspicuous things that could be only be found by those who already knew that they might be there. He learned that in early spring, if you looked carefully, where the back roads wound ...
Death of a Translator 11 Aug 2013 | 07:12 am
Dora Knowlton Ranous's English version of Flaubert's L'Éducation sentimentale doesn't have much to recommend it (other than the magnificent daguerrotype on the cover of this New Directions reprint), b...
Weapons 5 Aug 2013 | 04:41 am
Every autumn the fire department put on a turkey shoot as a fund raiser. No turkeys were involved — or rather there were turkeys but they were already firmly dead, frozen solid, and stowed in the back...
Memorial Day 3 Aug 2013 | 06:30 am
The children were darting in all directions, in blue Cub Scout uniforms with yellow neckerchiefs if they had them or play clothes if they didn't, giggling and hollering and playing tag in the clearing...
Why have they killed Jaurès? 1 Aug 2013 | 03:54 am
Today is the 99th anniversary of the assassination of Jean Jaurès, the French socialist leader and parliamentarian who had struggled, valiantly but vainly, to keep his country from plunging into the i...
Streets of the Spectacle 28 Jul 2013 | 08:15 am
It's February 1848, and Frédéric Moreau, the idle young hero of Flaubert's Sentimental Education, paces up and down the sidewalk, nervously awaiting a rendez-vous with another man's wife. The two have...
Three portraits 27 Jul 2013 | 06:28 am
Three more Real Photo postcards, possibly from western Pennsylvania. The one above has the following inscription on the reverse of the card: Mother Moser [or possibly "Moses"] Mother's Sister Mariah K...
