Click here to buy a signed copy of the CRIES OF LONDON. IN THE MIDST OF LIFE I WAKE in the dark city of my dreaming. It is the bellman that wakes me before dawn, crying wearily Pa ...

Continuum this week presents a program called The Cries of London, referring to the short lyrical and musical calls of merchants hawking their products and services at the beginning of the 17th ...

The street vendors of early modern London were a practical sort. They’d sooner have a penny than a portrait. But by the late 16th century, their likenesses were quite the commodity. It was then that ...

DULCIMER STREET (637 pp.)—Norman Collins—Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($3). The blonde screamed: “Let me out . . . let me out!” “You shut your trap,” said Percy Boon. The car sped over London’s lonely, foggy ...