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Opposites Attract: An Interview with Holly A. Baggett, author of “Making No...
In 1914, on the ninth floor of Chicago’s Fine Arts Building, Margaret C. Anderson launched an experimental magazine called the Little Review. They published dozens of writers, including Sherwood...
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Rural America Demystified: A Review of “The Lies of the Land” by Steven Conn
Steven Conn argues that the ideal small town in rural America that we imagine—a place defined as the opposite of urban space where people are hardworking, value family, religion, and independence from...
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Home Delivery: My Father and the Midcentury House Contest that Launched His...
Between 1945 and 1946, Chicago veterans returned to a city short by more than 100,000 homes. Seeing itself at the center of a new housing boom, on September 30, 1945, the Tribune devoted a full page to...
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Active Agents: A Review of “Bootlegging the Airwaves” by Eleanor Patterson
The author offers intriguing examples, in the era of radio and television, of how people came together to create, reinterpret and exchange cultural artifacts in the interest of building both community...
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Bawdy Vignettes: A Review of “Libertine London—Sex in the Eighteenth-Century...
Peakman's alluring book chronicles sexual activity between men and women, men and men, and men and children in pre-Victorian England. It's a fascinating, grotesque journey that will broaden your view...
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Brilliance and Brutality in Everyday Ancient Rome: A Review of “Populus” by...
Guy de la Bédoyère shows us that the Romans were fallible and brilliant human beings worthy of the many books that have been written about their fascinating civilization.
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Love and Criticism: A Review of “Symbolism, Dada, Surrealisms: Selected...
Mary Ann Caws has devoted her career to those rebellious early twentieth-century artists and writers, and to their antecedents and inheritors. Her formidable command of the history of the Surrealist...
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For Bookworms: A Review of “The Bookshop—A History of the American Bookstore”...
“The Bookshop” will make you want to drop your Amazon Prime subscription cold turkey and visit a real-life store. Remember to greet the cat.
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Not the Constitution’s Fault: A Review of “No Democracy Lasts Forever—How the...
The Chicago native argues that the U.S. Constitution's flaws are behind the crisis now facing American democracy and that it’s too hard to amend. But what’s needed is the will and ingenuity of “we the...
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Cheesy Morbidity: A Review of “American Scary” by Jeremy Dauber
If a Columbia student were to hand in this book as a paper to Professor Dauber, he would likely mark it down for its absence of a well-defined, unifying and clarifying thesis.
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