Essay: Defending “unregulated” little free libraries
Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) thinks the little free libraries along many Chicago sidewalks are bad — very bad. They are “unregulated”! And they’re “popular”! And many of them are planted [...]
Book review: “Five Little Pigs” by Agatha Christie
Even success can be boring, it seems. That’s a good explanation for Agatha Christie’s 1942 murder mystery Five Little Pigs. At this point, in the middle of the 20th century, [...]
Book review: “The Bible and Poetry” by Michael Edwards, translated by Stephen E. Lewis
Michael Edwards is an English-born French poet and scholar, and he argues that it’s important to recognize that much of the Bible is written as poetry or as poetic prose, [...]
Poem: “Fare well”
Fare well By Patrick T. Reardon At Ainslie and Clark, he sees the clouds open to the dark and sparkling of space, back to the mass of energy in the [...]
Book review: “The Glorious Pool” by Thorne Smith
The Glorious Pool, with the salaciously seductive image of a nude woman on the cover, is a screwball comedy of a novel about a fountain — er, pool — of [...]
Poem: Salt
Salt By Patrick T. Reardon . Child of the Century was born in a wash of salt water, a covenant with breathing, an opening of the eyes to power and [...]
Book review: “Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition” by Mark Walczynski
The expedition of discovery that Louis Jolliet, a merchant-explorer, and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit priest, undertook with five other men in 1673 was a pivotal moment in the history of [...]
Announcement: New Poetry Book — “Salt of the Earth: Doubts and Faith”
My sixth book of poetry Salt of the Earth: Doubts and Faith has just been published by Kelsay Books. It’s my third book of poetry in the last ten months, [...]
Book review: “I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile’s Dictatorship, 1975” by Kathleen Osberger
r Kathleen Osberger’s account of her three harrowing months as a religious volunteer with a community of Catholic nuns in Chile a half century ago brings the reader deep into [...]
Book review: “And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle” by Jon Meacham
The concluding sentence of Abraham Lincoln’s eloquent, poignant and contemplative Second Inaugural Address has long been held up as one of the most stirring evocations of American idealism. It reads: [...]