Rockwell Kent’s drawings for Moby-Dick, or The Whale
Rockwell Kent’s drawings for Moby Dick, or The Whale, completed for the 1930 edition of Herman Melville’s...
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Beware the Ides of March
CAESAR: Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue,...
Rothschild’s Surrealist Ball at Ferriéres, 1972
On December 12 1972 Marie-Hélène Rothschild threw an extraordinary ball at her families French estate,...
Thanksgiving Prayer: William S. Burroughs
In 1986, William S. Burroughs wrote a piece that turned the traditional spirit of Thanksgiving...
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
Blind Willie Johnson was born in Texas in 1897. As a boy he wasn’t blind,...
Last page of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights...