Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago
Unrighteous indignation and an inability to hear himself mark every page of this book, which at times sounds less like a memoir than one of those rambling farewell messages discovered too late on the mass shooter’s computer.
This Nelson Algren Award-winning author’s thrilling debut novel about killing, disease and racism is both eager and skeptical of the concept of redemption and provides an excellent interrogation of it.
Half pictorial guide to many cities’ transit systems, half history of how these cities have grown or fallen to their present networks, the book is a story of twentieth-century America, the rise and fall of the trains and their replacement by cars.
One last month for diverse voices and serious work before the holidays take over.
Author of five nonfictions, Peter Coviello’s new book is an omnibus of brainy, exuberant essays that explore an extraordinary range of subjects with the question “What if I were someone different?” The author acknowledges with a cellular-level sorrow that no one can be anyone other than who they are.
An eclectic, compelling mix of celebrations, talks and readings fill the October calendar.
Shteir’s latest, “Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter” is a dynamic biography of the woman who wrote “The Feminine Mystique,” the 1963 bestseller that gave middle-class women a language for their unspoken dissatisfaction and oppression. It struck a chord, and Friedan lost no time in launching a movement. She founded the National Organization of Women (NOW), which fought for women’s rights as human rights, and sparked what is now known as the Second Wave of feminism.
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