Books
Mapping Africatown: Albert Murray and his Hometown
Map by Donna Brown for Library of America, with input from Paul Devlin. Based on...
Divorcée Fiction: On Ursula Parrott
Russell Patterson, “Where there’s smoke there’s fire.” Public domain, via Wikime...
My Curtains, My Radiator
Photograph by Mitchell Johnson. I moved to Chicago late last summer and spent m...
Daniel Mason, Marta Figlerowicz, and Malachi Black Reco...
From Zdeněk Miler’s “Krtek a maminka.” Guild loyalty says I should probably choo...
Selling to the Strand: A Conversation with Larry Campbell
Photograph by Troy Schipdam. In nearly eight years of working at the Strand, I’v...
On Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers
Still from Hungry Hearts, an adaptation of a novel by Anzia Yezierska. Courtesy ...
It’s Nineteen Seventy-Nine, Okay
Artistic rendering of a double black hole, 2015. ESA/Hubble. Wikimedia Commons, ...
The Mother of the Mother of the Virgin Mary
Sixteenth-century icon depicting Emerentia, Saint Anne, the Virgin Mary, and the...
