Book Reviews

Book review: “Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports” by Mark Jacob and Matthew Jacob

By |2024-11-20T20:01:46+00:00November 26th, 2024|

In the profane manner of professional athletes, Bobby Hunter had this summary of Abe Saperstein, the founder of the Harlem Globetrotters and, for more than three decades, the team’s owner [...]

Book review: “Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent” by John William Nelson

By |2024-10-22T12:39:57+00:00October 22nd, 2024|

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 [...]

Book review: “The Beautifull Cassandra: A Novel in Twelve Chapters” by Jane Austen, with an afterword by Claudia L. Johnson and artwork by Leon Steinmetz

By |2024-10-10T14:47:54+00:00October 10th, 2024|

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 [...]

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