Nov 1 2012

In June of 1929, an image appeared in the Belgian magazine Variétés. The author of the map is unknown, though it has been attributed to the surrealist poet Paul Éluard. It was ...

Nov 1 2010

I. The Museo Waldemar Julsrud squatted on the edge of town. Looking past it, you could see the end of the road and beyond that the green hills of Guanajuato State. Charles ...

Oct 1 2009

In April 2006, after suffering for months from a feeling of exhaustion that often attacks me when I have spent too long in one of those ­cities immortalized in ­novels and ...

Jan 1 2008

Quid in tanta lacuna dictum, non expunto. So wrote the German classicist Jo­han Ludwig Hei­berg in 1906, after peering at a particularly inscrutable section of the medieval ...