BettyJoyce Nash’s crackerjack novel Everybody Here Is Kin has been described as a coming-of-age tale, but that’s only half of it. It’s also a coping-with-PTSD-after-military-service story. And, really, it’s a [...]
In the seven stories in Ana Castillo’s new sparkling, gritty and compassionate collection Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home, there are a lot of common themes. Ghosts, for one, including a beautiful [...]
Make no mistake about it. I love physical books. I love the weighty feel of a book in my hands. I love the aroma of a book when you open [...]
Over the past 76 years, the Playtex brand of bras, girdles and other women’s products hasn’t been shy when it comes to advertising its merchandise. In fact, in 1949, it [...]
Mark K. Tilsen, a poet and Native-American activist, grew up reading a copy of Voices from Wounded Knee, 1973 that “was coffee-stained and was falling apart by the time I [...]
Laura Lippman’s 2018 novel Sunburn is a mystery and a crime novel, but it’s more of a character study. The characters are Adam Bosk and Pauline Hansen, once known as [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
