The Longest Train I Ever Saw

Nov 08

Letters of Note: I was ready to sink into the earth with shame

Sedlec Ossuary -

Church of Bones, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

Revolutionary War hero becomes honorary US citizen -

Casimir Pulaski!

Nov 05

Leon Spillaert, Sailing Vessel at Sea, 1920

Leon Spillaert, Sailing Vessel at Sea, 1920

Leon Spilliaaert, The Open Door, 1945

Leon Spilliaaert, The Open Door, 1945

Ann Woo, Photographer

Ann Woo, Photographer

Bolaño Inc. -

Roberto Bolaño is being sold in the U.S. as the next Gabriel García Márquez, a darker, wilder, decidedly un-magical paragon of Latin American literature. But his former friend and fellow novelist, Horacio Castellanos Moya, isn’t buying it.