Essay: How Many Books Can $30 Buy at the Newberry Book Fair?
When I visited the Newberry Library Book Fair on Friday, I knew I had to come up with a strategy. …
When I visited the Newberry Library Book Fair on Friday, I knew I had to come up with a strategy. …
Jennifer Berne wrote the storybook Calvin Can’t Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie in 2010, and her second cousin…
By Carr Harkrader With its dramatic palazzo ornamentation, twinkling star-lit ceiling, and mischievous cherubs nuzzling within insets, the Music Box…
Salman Rushdie is sometimes asked why, in this age of lies, he chooses to write fiction, adding more untruths to…
History doesn’t repeat, Mark Twain said: it rhymes. And, as poet and playwright Cornelius Eady and performer Joe Morton both…
DeeMost of us don’t think of imagination when we think of the Secret Service, if we think of them at…
The Chicago River, as many of us know, once flowed the other way, into Lake Michigan. It was reversed—a triumph…
What do junior high school science, science fiction, string theory, the God equation, and Elvis Presley have in common? They…
Most of us probably don’t think of economics as an optimistic field. For some of us it pulls up thoughts…
A parade of artists and pop art, literary and music figures from mid-century America populate Louis Menand’s new book, The…
When one speaks more than one language, and moves from one to another with any degree of frequency, one runs…
Ray Bradbury’s work and reputation have aged like fine dandelion wine. Unlike many of his fellow 20th century science-fiction…
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