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Review: It Is What It Is: Guide to Chicago’s Twenty-First-Century Architecture

Guide to Chicago’s Twenty-First-Century Architecture Chicago Architecture Center and John Hill University of Illinois Press As packed with tacky tourist traps as any city, Chicago has one irreproachable draw: its […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • January 9, 2022
    • Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    Review: Messy Cities, Monstrous and Full of Hope, Metropolis, by Ben Wilson

    Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention By Ben Wilson Anchor Books In the 1850s, Swedish writer Fredricka Bremer visited Chicago and, to say the least, was not […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • December 2, 2021
    • Lit , Poetry , Reviews

    Review: Ana Castillo Traverses Loss, Grief, and Politics in My Book of the Dead

    book cover with title: MY BOOK OF THE DEAD by Ana Castillo. the words are superimposed over three juxtaposed photographs. The top is hands, the second clouds, and the third a crop of an image from a Black Lives Matter demonstration.

    My Book of the Dead By Ana Castillo University of New Mexico Press We are caught in a time of collective mourning, moving through yet another year of the ongoing […]

  • Caitlin Archer-Helke
  • November 1, 2021
    • Lit , Poetry , Reviews

    Review: Poetry Collection Darkness on the Face of the Deep Takes Risks with Emotional Depths

    Darkness on the Face of the Deep by Patrick T. Reardon Kelsay Books Review by Renny Golden In Darkness on the Face of the Deep, Third Coast Review writer Patrick […]

  • Guest Author
  • October 2, 2021
    • Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    Review: Literary Festivals, Salons, and Words Aloud in Ellen Wiles’s Live Literature

    Live Literature: The Experience and Cultural Value of Literary Performance Events from Salons to Festivals Ellen Wiles Palgrave Macmillan With music, open mics, and more—live performance is slowly coming back […]

  • Caitlin Archer-Helke
  • October 1, 2021
    • Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Parks and zoos , Reviews

    Review: Hope, Nature, and Racism, Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago, by Brian McCammack

    Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago By Brian McCammack Harvard University Press For African Americans who took part in the Great Migration in the first half […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • July 27, 2021
    • Essays , Fiction , Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    Essay: True West

    One Sunday afternoon a number of years ago I found a finger puppet lying outside Maclean House, the former dormitory (now apartments) named in honor of the late Norman Maclean, […]

  • June Sawyers
  • July 6, 2021
    • Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    Review: Lefse, Lutefisk, and Other Norwegian Things, For the Love of Cod, by Eric Dregni

    For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son’s Search for Norwegian Happiness Eric Dregni University of Minnesota Press Eric Dregni is only partly Norwegian but that hasn’t stopped him […]

  • June Sawyers
  • May 13, 2021
    • Fiction , Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    Review: Small-Town Ghosts, Spoon River America, by Jason Stacy

    Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town By Jason Stacy University of Illinois Press It’s ironic that Spoon River Anthology—perhaps the most famous […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • May 13, 2021
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Looking Just Like Jesus, Imagine the Dog by Cecilia Pinto

    Imagine the Dog By Cecilia Pinto Texas Review Press The red-haired cop looks at Ricky Rudolph and, with an angry edge to his voice, asks, “You think Jesus Christ is […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • April 25, 2021
    • Essays , Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews , Uncategorized

    Review: Flashes of Wry: Fast Funny Women, edited by Gina Barreca

    Note: Gina Barreca, the editor of Fast Funny Women, and Chicagoan Nicole Hollander will read from the collection of 75 essays of flash nonfiction in a Zoom event at 7 […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • March 1, 2021
    • Art & Museums , Lit , Photography , Reviews

    Review: CityFiles Press Photography Books Bring History into Focus

    n-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II.

    CityFiles Press is a small publishing company based in Chicago that has been producing books filled with stunning photography along with compelling text. Since its inception in 2003, co-publishers Michael […]

  • Thomas Wawzenek
  • January 28, 2021
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