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 [...]
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 [...]
The tone of C.S. Forester’s 1926 novel Payment Deferred is distinctively light and breezy. Think of the way a great storyteller sitting at a campfire might spin a tale about [...]
I first read Robert A. Caro’s Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson in the spring of 1990, right after it was published. I mean to say, I gobbled [...]
This is kind of embarrassing. I was about two-thirds of the way through Irish Murdoch’s 1961 novel A Severed Head when I saw in passing a reference to it as [...]
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. [...]
Chicago doesn’t play much of a role in Rob Wilkins’s biography of his boss, Terry Pratchett, the British mega-selling author of the fantasy-science fiction Discworld series whose life was cut [...]
When you think of it, sending a letter in the mail is a small act of hope. It’s the same sending a text or an email. You compose your message [...]
The softcover edition of John W. Thomason Jr.’s Gone to Texas is visually striking but, in the manner of many paperbacks, misleading. Nevertheless, it turned out to be misleading in [...]
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 [...]
Sometime last September, I happened upon a musical called The Wild Party — book, music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa — being performed by the Blank Theatre Company on a [...]