GUEST BLOG – How Darwin Made Monkeys of Us All, by Mark Cwik
Upon first reading Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, the great 19th-century biologist Thomas Henry Huxley—later to be known […]
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GUEST BLOG – Ghazals – erotic & spiritual, by Lisa Pasold
The ghazal is my favourite poetic form—even though it’s less familiar than the sonnet or the haiku. A sonnet gives
GUEST BLOG – Julia Zarankin on Reading Proust
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust. I doubt there’s a better
GUEST BLOG – Sean Forester on solitude and connection in the paintings at the Chicago Art Institute
The man on the left sits solitary. The bartender seems to be speaking, but no one responds (the woman looks
GUEST BLOG – Ear of the Beholder with Rick Phillips
After a Viennese music critic died, some of his friends made the rounds of local musicians to raise money for
GUEST BLOG – Lisa Pasold on why September is best for visiting Paris’s glittering Belle Epoque
Paris is beautiful at any time of year, but autumn is my favourite season for conjuring the glittering world of
GUEST BLOG – Gary Schoepfel welcomes you to his home field, Chicago.
For more than a decade, I have been globe trotting with Classical Pursuits. I’ve led book discussions on riverboats in
GUEST BLOG – Craig Walley invites you to explore ga·lore /gəˈlôr/ Adjective – in abundance
While I cannot invite you to Newfoundland, I can invite you to do the next best thing — journey imaginatively
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GUEST BLOG – David Schmitt on the merits of mysteries
I love good books! I’m reading Anna Karenina right now, just for fun, but I recently finished two of Lee
GUEST BLOG – French Immersion with Sean Forester, Lisa Pasold and Ann Kirkland
In Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris, the central character gets into a taxi and finds himself transported back to