By Steve Rhodes
June 9-10.
Publication: Tribune
Cover: Lincoln, Reagan, and Einstein above the cover line “Legacies.” Better choice would have been “Who Doesn’t Belong?”
For multiple reviews, which we will address below.
Posted on June 11, 2007
Reviewing the Reviews
By Steve Rhodes
June 2-3.
Publication: Sun-Times
Cover: Somewhat nonsensical but not entirely aesthetically unappealing art attached to Publisher John Cruickshank’s review of Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach. I’m generally uninterested in reviews and articles by the bosses, whose only qualification for writing them is usually that they are the bosess. Jeff Johnson’s review of Crystal Zevon’s I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon also starts on the section front.
Posted on June 6, 2007
PressNotes: Impotence, Goths, & Roy Lichtenstein
By Meghan Van Leuwen
News from Chicago’s academic presses, and other intellectual developments.
1. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Off the Presses
* Impotence: A Cultural History. By Angus McLaren.
* Aguecheek’s Beef, Belch’s Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature. Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns. By Robert Applebaum.
* Wannabes, Goths, and Christians : The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status.. By Amy C. Wilkins.
* Chicago’s Urban Nature: A Guide to the City’s Architecture + Landscape. By Sally A. Kitt Chappell.
Posted on June 1, 2007