Discussed: Ida B. Wells, Tom Hanks’s favorite sandwich, Dessa, Jessica Hopper’s friends, and the girl whose kidnapping inspired Lolita
Tag: Rachel Shteir
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The Third Coast—turning a bunch of stuff that happened into drama
Thomas Dyja’s history of Chicago finds the story line in 30 years of city life.
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More prose gems from Chicago by Day and Night
Some boostery purple prose from the guidebook to the 1893 World’s Fair
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don’t call him a sentimentalist
Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don’t call him a sentimentalist.
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As pecking orders go among cities, what’s the place of Chicago?
Comments on Rachel Shteir’s New York Times book review suggest a complex sort of civic assessment.
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Rachel Shteir—cat’s-paw of New York’s cunning plot to make the world despise us?
More thoughts on the DePaul professor and her essay on Chicago
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Not quite Detroit—Chicago as described by a New York Times book critic
Rachel Shteir’s review of three Chicago books is a little over the top.
Posted inArts & Culture
Light-fingered reading
Rachel Shteir’s The Steal offers a cultural history of shoplifting