For a quarter of a century, I’ve used Donald L. Miller’s City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, one of the most popular books [...]
Henry Morton Robinson’s novel The Cardinal, originally published in 1950, was reissued in January, 1963, in anticipation of the upcoming release of the Otto Preminger movie of the same name. [...]
Maurice, the beat-up but brainy cat, has leapt from the stable loft onto the mouse in the time-honored tradition of predator and prey — only to stop short when the [...]
Surrender, premeditate nothing, want nothing, neither discern nor dissect nor stare, but rather shift, dodge, lose focus, and — slowing down — consider the only material that presents itself, in [...]
There is a beautiful embrace of complexity, a wonderful delight in ambiguity and amazements, to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s 2007 book of history, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. It is the [...]
Christopher Moore is a writer of joyfully goofy and ribald novels about such things as vampires, demons, San Francisco, a Native-American trickster and the comic aspects of Shakespeare’s tragedies, such [...]
Let me tell you By Patrick T. Reardon . Plug Nickel and Red Cent met on museum steps and, inside, mysticked with blue innocent Della Robbia, rhythmed the light-shine white [...]
I want to teach Emma who is two By Patrick T. Reardon . I want to teach Emma who is two to look out this window at the chaos of [...]
Five songs By Patrick T. Reardon . He restyled the opening words of Genesis as a country-western song, let there be light and all that, fruitful and multiply — drinking, [...]
Published in 1970, The City Dwellers by Charles Platt is based on the belief that cities were going to hell in a handbasket. One of Platt’s earliest published fiction books, [...]
