Book review: “Guadalupe: Mother of the New Creation” by Virgil Elizondo
The appearance of Mary, the mother of Jesus, to Aztec peasant Juan Diego in December, 1531, on the hill of Tepeyac outside of Mexico City, is different from and more [...]
Poem: Cost
Cost By Patrick T. Reardon Cost me voice box. Cost me black holes, greedy tunnels, another atom existence. Cost acne and lumps, lost cost. Cluster jazz. . Cost inhale, exhale. [...]
Rick Kogan: “Puddin’ is as beautiful, moving and stunning a book as I can remember reading, and it’s unique.”
During his weekly radio show on WGN on Sunday, January 22, Chicago journalism legend Rick Kogan had high praise for Patrick T. Reardon’s Puddin’: The Autobiography of a Baby, a [...]
Book review: “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus” by Charles C. Mann
Prior to publishing 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus in 2006, Charles C. Mann had co-authored a few books on science and technology. But he had specialized in [...]
Book review: “Death of an Expert Witness” by P.D. James
Early in her writing career, critics often chided P. D. James for what they said were slow-moving plots in her mysteries. In a way, they were right, but they missed [...]
Book review: “But Come Ye Back” by Beth Lordan
When Mary Curtin, a Boston nanny in the late 1950s, gets the telegram MOTHER DYING, she thinks, I’d be too late. She’ll never admit that she doesn’t know what she’d [...]
Book review: “The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities” by Brian Ladd
I’m having a difficult time deciding what, dear reader, to tell you first. Let’s put it this way: The streets of Paris, London, Vienna and Berlin in the 1700s and [...]
Book review: “Thérèse of Lisieux: God’s Gentle Warrior” by Thomas R. Nevin
For Thomas R. Nevin, the key insight into the short life and rich spirituality of Thérèse of Lisieux is to be found in a conversation in January, 1897, eight [...]