Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
from Julia Keller of the Chicago Tribune, We think we’re enlightened. We think we’re evolved. We think we’re past all that nasty old stuff from the bad old days. We think we’re “post-racial,” to use the curious term that popped up in the wake of President Barack Obama’s election. Then a couple of fun-loving but culturally tone-deaf Blackhawks...
The Chicago Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Chicago Tribune's cultural critic Julia Keller has yet another quotable review of a great new title from the University of Chicago Press. This time Keller offers an insightful critique of Philip Graham's new travel memoir documenting his year-long...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... — which meant, of course, that I read it over and over again, reveling in the terror it induced.— Julia Keller, Tribune critic Life is scary enough, I don’t need ghost stories. If pressed, I’ll have to say “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James. Psychologically complex sexual repression, a governess, her charge in an eerie and sinister version of dark reality — it doesn’t get better....
