A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past two weeks: –China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema edited by Poshek Fu (August 11, 2008) –“Baad […]
Category: Illinois / regional
Go Cubs, Go! by Elliott Gorn
Of course I want the Cubs to win the World Series. This year, 2008, would be great—exactly one hundred years after their last World Championship. But secretly, in my heart-of-hearts, […]
Bloody Williamson Revisited
When I was a kid, I spent countless hours seeking out familiar places and unspeakable acts in the soldiers of local history standing at attention on my grandmother’s bookshelf: Gallatin […]