From within the Triangle, it’s easy to get excited when hometown heroes Superchunk co-headline Hopscotch with The Flaming Lips, as happened in 2011, or when relative Triangle newcomers such as The ...

I ONCE MET A MAN who claimed he always read the last paragraph of any novel before he turned to page one. “I want to make sure it has a good ending,” he explained. “Otherwise why invest the effort?” ...

Julio Cortázar’s novel of eternal youth turns 50 this year. Rayuela, published in Spanish in 1963 and translated into English as Hopscotch three years later, was a breakthrough book. Capturing life as ...

Thousands of years ago, the lives of men were nasty, brutish and short, but at least they could play hopscotch without being subjected to ridicule. Hopscotch, in fact, was an all-male pursuit, an ...