GUEST BLOG – Betty Ann Jordan on Looking at Photographs with Susan Sontag
“Like a pair of binoculars with no right or wrong end, the camera makes exotic things near, intimate, and familiar […]
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GUEST BLOG – Jimmye Hillman’s poem, penned late one night during our American Civil War trip
You sorta hadta be there to get all the references, but y’all can see what a fine poet Jimmye Hillman
GUEST BLOG – Thomas Jones on why you should choose Buddenbrooks this July
In scope, detail, and humanity, Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks is a classic of modem literature and continues to be a model
GUEST BLOG – How Darwin Made Monkeys of Us All, by Mark Cwik
Upon first reading Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, the great 19th-century biologist Thomas Henry Huxley—later to be known
GUEST BLOG – Ghazals – erotic & spiritual, by Lisa Pasold
The ghazal is my favourite poetic form—even though it’s less familiar than the sonnet or the haiku. A sonnet gives
GUEST BLOG – Julia Zarankin on Reading Proust
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust. I doubt there’s a better
GUEST BLOG – Sean Forester on solitude and connection in the paintings at the Chicago Art Institute
The man on the left sits solitary. The bartender seems to be speaking, but no one responds (the woman looks
GUEST BLOG – Ear of the Beholder with Rick Phillips
After a Viennese music critic died, some of his friends made the rounds of local musicians to raise money for
GUEST BLOG – Lisa Pasold on why September is best for visiting Paris’s glittering Belle Epoque
Paris is beautiful at any time of year, but autumn is my favourite season for conjuring the glittering world of
GUEST BLOG – Gary Schoepfel welcomes you to his home field, Chicago.
For more than a decade, I have been globe trotting with Classical Pursuits. I’ve led book discussions on riverboats in
