Tip of the Week: Christian Lander
The immensely popular blog Stuff White People Like, created by LA-based writer Christian Lander, was spawned from a Internet-conversation he had with a friend about “The Wire.” Only a short time later...
View Article411: Way with Words
How do you put your love for Barack Obama into words? At artist showcase and fundraiser Writers and Cartoonists for Obama, October 15 at the Chopin Theater, see and hear just how it’s done. All...
View ArticleThe Future of Words: How Barack Obama’s Presidency Will Change Literature in...
By John Freeman Presidents and novelists are storytellers both, but it is a rare day in America when their narratives collide. It nearly happened in 1963, the year Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy...
View ArticleThe New Black: Scoop Jackson is still searching for the post-racial promised...
For white Americans, consciousness of race has tended to arrive without quite so much freight — as a discovery that there are distinctions, sure, but that white is the norm, the default mode for...
View ArticleReview: Culture of Opportunity: Obama’s Chicago by Rebecca Janowitz
RECOMMENDED “Culture of Opportunity: Obama’s Chicago: The People, Politics, and Ideas of Hyde Park” could have been written without that middle phrase, a nod to the man that, as author Rebecca Janowitz...
View ArticleNonfiction Review: “Money Well Spent?: The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar...
The ink of President Barack Obama’s pen was barely dry on the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act before the $787 billion stimulus package was already a political football. For many Democrats...
View ArticleFiction Review: “The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln” by Stephen L. Carter
Instead of an East Room shrouded in black lace, instead of flocks of mourners lining the railroads, instead of imperishable verse from Walt Whitman, the novelist Stephen L. Carter presents Illinois’...
View ArticleFiction Review: “Grant Park” by Leonard Pitts, Jr.
RECOMMENDED “Grant Park,” the third novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. centers around Malcolm Toussaint, a black newspaper columnist who has consciously decided to torpedo his...
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