Alexander Polikoff’s Cry My Beloved America is a most depressing book, especially in these days before the November 5 presidential election. But that’s not Polikoff’s fault. He’s just the messenger. [...]
In her pain (Brother Elbow and Little Sister poem #7) By Patrick T. Reardon We sit with Trump enthusiasts, Elbow, Sister and I. Oh, Elbow, calm [...]
Steve Carella is the most gentlemanly of detectives, and, in the squad room of the 87th precinct, he is respected by his peers. But, after witnessing Douglas King refuse numerous [...]
The key moment in John William Nelson’s important, original and eye-opening history of the place that became the city of Chicago — Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the [...]
In his novel Man’s Fate, Andre Malraux tells the story of the Communist insurrectionists who took control of Shanghai in March, 1927, and then were massacred a month later by [...]
Towards Zero, published by Agatha Christie in 1944, is a reminder of how creative she was as a mystery writer. Christie was the epitome of what’s called the Golden Age [...]
When Jane Austen wrote The Beautifull Cassandra at the age of 12 in 1788, she added the subtitle: A Novel in Twelve Chapters. That’s a big claim for a work [...]
Like us By Patrick T. Reardon In daylight, the Ghiberti gold doors, behind a thick metal cell, turn out to be a 1990 copy, and the Thursday streets — [...]
Barbara Pym wrote Some Tame Gazelle in the mid-1930s, shortly after she graduated from Oxford University, and it was rejected by several publishers. After World War II, she revised it, [...]
The lost tribes, part 7 By Patrick T. Reardon You and I lose the race, straining or loafing, sinews ripping or flabbing. The clock. Each touch passes, [...]
