On January 7, 1969, a young Harvard anthropology PhD candidate named Jane Sanders Britton was murdered. There were whispers that the young graduate student was having an affair with a married Harvard professor of archeology. It was said that the death scene was staged in a way that indicated the murderer had knowledge of ancient…
Ramen is a bit of an obsession in my family, so much so that if a wish-granting food fairy could magically whisk us off to any restaurant in the U.S. of our choosing, chef David Chang’s Momofuku Noodle Bar might just top the list. In his recently-published memoir, Eat a Peach, David Chang reveals the…
Phil Christman is the author of the new book Midwest Futures – a collection of interconnected essays about the Midwest. The book expands on Christman’s 2017 essay for The Hedgehog Review On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality. Both the essay and book start with a dissection of writing cliches about the Midwest as a…
During times of national crisis, we often look to our leaders for guidance and reassurance. Perhaps that is why, during these uncertain times, I was compelled to read two recently-published books about wartime leaders who, though very different in personality and upbringing, were both cognizant of their responsibility to the people they represented, and extremely…
The silence, the distance and space, is everything that the clutter of cities below are not. Tim Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity After a patron highly recommended it, I picked up a copy of Timothy Egan’s A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith and listened to it. It was…
