Very well--what would be a linguistically accurate characterization of a man? His raven-black hair... The waves of his hair... His eyes radi...

Artist on el Conde A tailor at work Selling palm fruit and other delicacies Portrait of a bride Mirror scene Open window Glimpsing the mime ...

A few weeks ago, the New York Times 's South American correspondent Larry Rohter penned a laudatory piece on Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003)...

My thoughts and prayers go out to Coretta Scott King , the 78-year-old widow of one of the greatest figures in Black/American history, civil...

I want to Reggie H. and others for pointing me towards " Tales of the City ," James Norton's August 13, 2005 Salon.com articl...

Young man with pet monkey Mirándome Frente de una casa de cambio Barbers waiting Niñito con su perro Esperar At the Sports Bar Esperar II

"Richard went to Paris in 1946, when I was 22, he was 38. Now, it took me a long time; I had to get to be much older to realize somethi...

The other afternoon, while riding in a taxi in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo, I spotted through the window a young man sporting what ap...

Hecho a mano Wooden statues "Desaparecido" Wedding Portrait Sunday street scene Selling CDs Creativity

Last year, in the magazine store at Gómez Peña International Airport in Santo Domingo, I spotted Jaime de Jesús Domínguez's Historia Dom...

Frank Leon Roberts , the young New York cultural critic, posts two very provocative pieces on gay marriage, " Why I Hate Gay Marriage, ...

While rereading Allucquère Rosanne Stone 's 1995 seminal critical study-performance, The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of t...

John H. Johnson , publishing industry pioneer and founder of Negro Digest, Ebony, Jet and the Johnson Publications empire, died in Chicago ...

3 photos from the Garden State: Wonder Bar (on the Asbury Park "circuit," Ocean Avenue) Asbury Park Convention Hall The Garden Sta...

Narrativist par excellence and literary visionary Renee Gladman , whose handsewn chapbook series leroy published a vanfull of the most inno...

MTV : you know it, I watch it. I am even known to mention some of its more notorious programs in my courses. For all its faults, both histor...

As is well known, language has an advantage over film, owing to several thousand years of tradition. Modern Western languages derive from t...

The Field Research Study Group A is planning to relaunch the "Emotional Outreach Project," which appears to be even more necessa...

(Let's see if I can complete this entry in about 15 minutes.) Back when I was an undergraduate in the late 1980s the auteur theory of...

Switching gears dramatically, I felt I had to post on several related topics that I'd come across on other Websites. The first is an exc...