Books: Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871–1874
I was hoping that Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871–1874 would be a breathless page-turner about the human dramas of con...
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“Don’t read Dear Edward on a plane!” a friend warned me. But I’d packed four books for my weeklong trip to Colombia and I’d finished the ot... -
Nine years ago today—two years after leaving the hospital and just hours after taking the very first dose of yet another new bipolar med add... -
The picaresque novel is an enduring literary tradition that’s been holding readers in rapt attention since the 1550s. It typically features ...