Let me tell you: I’m a huge Chicago history nerd, and I just gobbled up Benjamin Sells’s new book A History of the Chicago Portage: The Crossroads That Made Chicago [...]
Performance artist Jefferson Pinder offers, as a fleeting monument to the long-gone Wall of Respect, a piece called “Bronzeville Etude” that anyone can do — taking a run up and [...]
Foul ball By Patrick T. Reardon . Before he was a prophet, Yogi Moses played baseball and, one dry Sunday morning, took his catcher’s mitt out to Agamemnon Field for [...]
For African Americans who took part in the Great Migration in the first half of the 20th century, the North was a Land of Hope that often disappointed. Some important [...]
The Bell by Iris Murdoch, published in 1958, is something of a time capsule. It is difficult to imagine a novel like this being written today. Murdoch’s subject is holiness [...]
Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip — two cold-blooded killers who, eventually, will get their comeuppance from the skeletal guy with the scythe — are tourists in Anhk-Morpork. Well, not actually [...]
Sgt. Sibyl Sue Blue of the spaceport city of Hammond is just, as one of her police colleagues says, “a little bitty girl.” He says this after she knocks a [...]
Back around 2800 BC or 2700 BC — in other words, nearly 5,000 years ago — lived a Middle Eastern ruler who later became the inspiration for the hero of [...]
There’s something deeply attractive to the idea of bad guys doing good things. That was the idea behind the 1965 bestseller by E. M. Nathanson The Dirty Dozen, about a [...]
The cover of Menachem Kaiser’s book features several line drawings of large apartment buildings on an orange and white background that gives the appearance of having been Scotch-taped in place. [...]
