Book review: “A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps” by Jeremy Black
The 1897 image on pages 110-111 of Jeremy Black’s A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps is a striking bird’s-eye view of Chicago, looking out across the downtown to [...]
The 1897 image on pages 110-111 of Jeremy Black’s A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps is a striking bird’s-eye view of Chicago, looking out across the downtown to [...]
“Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.” That’s St. Paul writing to the Philippians. [...]
The young woman and Sulien, an older man from another part of the world, are talking about birds and their movements together. “It’s just amazing to me how they moved, [...]
It’s a few days before Christmas in San Francisco in the mid-1990s, and Chet is a long-haired obese cat. How obese? Well, his human, a homeless guy “dirty beyond age [...]
David Ciminello’s 2024 novel The Queen of Steeplechase Park is a wild and wacky foul-mouthed fantasy about free-spirit Belladonna Marie Donato and her circle of boundary-breaking friends in the tight, [...]
Table By Patrick T. Reardon Let the sparrow take a chair at the Juneteeth table with Elijah, with Godot, with the lost tribes and the communion of saints and [...]
For Gaza's Children is a scream of protest against the oppression of Palestinians by those who have suffered oppression themselves. It is a cry from the heart against the destruction, [...]
Bai Juyi and his best friend Yuan Zhen, Chinese poets twelve hundred years ago, promoted a revival of folk culture, known as the New Music Bureau Movement. The Music Bureau [...]
On the title page of David Mamet’s 2018 book, it says: Chicago: A Novel. It would have been more accurate to say: Chicago: A Myth. The book, well-written and well-paced, [...]
It wasn’t happenstance, I think, that Sidney Callahan’s The Magnificat: The Prayer of Mary and Marina Warner’s Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin [...]