TRAVEL PURSUITS — Chicago, a city of big shoulders
“Once you’ve come to be part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a […]
Journal
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
ANN’S MUSINGS – Divisiveness and Biology
I am preparing for our trip to Richmond Virginia in early March to explore the American Civil War from the
ANN’S MUSINGS — Vladimir Nabokov agrees with me that rereading is the best kind
My most pleasurable reading is invariably returning to a beloved novel, poem, essay, or story for another visit. It is
TRAVEL PURSUITS – Award-winning photos from the Camino and Vietnam/Cambodia
Drum roll please…. Let’s hear a big round of applause for Betty Duggan, Merlene McAlevy and Victor Levin (yes, Victor,
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
