No noise November

Illustration from Edwin D. Babbitt’s The Principles of Light and Color (1878).⠀⁠
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Featured in our essay "Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams", in which Alicia Puglionesi explores a curious case of supposed dream telepathy at the end of the US Civil War.

Photography by Xuebing Du

Rolieo Dien, 1982, on a No.5 Train at 180th Street station, The Bronx

“I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.”

— Bobby Fischer

Graciela Iturbide | La frontera ‘La Virgen Morena’ Tijuana, México, 1990

Y.M.

November the sixth
Like a path in autumn
Scarcely has it been swept clear, when it's once more covered with dry leaves