Book Reviews

Ask the average American, and you’d most likely find that the British royals have a pretty dopey reputation. For nearly half a century, there have been all these tabloid stories [...]

In late 1972, Ed Marciniak, a perennial social critic and justice activist, became president of the Institute of Urban Life, a small program affiliated with Loyola University Chicago.  He had [...]

Kate Wilhelm envisions a community of clones as a really dysfunctional family.  Wait, that’s not quite right.  In her 1976 science-fiction novel Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, she envisions [...]

A book means something different to an author than it does to a reader. Actually, each reader has a personal experience of the book, different in small and large ways [...]

In the final pages of his adroit and illuminating 2012 book Haiti: The Aftershocks of History, Laurent Dubois brings Ricardo Seitenfus onto the stage. In December, 2010, Seitenfus — a [...]

William M. Stableford’s 1971 transposition of Homer’s Iliad into The Days of Glory is a clever piece of science fiction, especially for a guy who was then in his early [...]

For the past two millenniums, Christianity has so influenced Western society that there is an expectation that a spiritual leader, like Jesus, should be without sin.  In the Catholic Church, [...]

Why do I read a book?  I mean, this particular book or that one.  I mean, what triggers the decision to open a book and start reading. Obviously, there are [...]