Evanston RoundTable, March 14, 2013 Like many first-time writers, Matt Henderson Ellis’s first novel, “Keeping Bedlam At Bay in the Prague Café” is heavily drawn — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 14, 2013 Art is what makes beauty out of ugliness, renders despair into acceptance, and creates order and understanding from chaos. Without — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 31, 2013 Kelly Amonte Hiller’s office in Patten Gym on the Northwestern campus is casual and spare. There are few plaques and — Read More
Evanston RoundTable Jan. 17, 2013 There’s a line comedies can cross over, sometimes into stupidity, sometimes into cruelty. Either way it’s rarely amusing. Such is — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 3, 2013 Some of the year’s best movies, still playing at first-run theaters, are set in the past, which makes for a — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 6, 2012 Steven Spielberg’s epic new biopic “Lincoln” opens on a panorama of Boschian horror, black and white soldiers hacking away at — Read More
New York Times Book Review, Nov. 11, 2012 To the Editor: Kurt Andersen’s entertaining and rueful recollection of meeting Kurt Vonnegut called to mind my — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 8, 2012 Movies have come a long way on the topic of living with disabilities. In “An Affair to Remember,” released in 1957, — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 25, 2012 In the wake of Dajae Coleman’s shooting death, there’s been a call for greater mentorship. Some people will wonder how they — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 11, 2012 Everyone of a certain age will remember the sprightly synthesizer tune that played as Mario scooted along in the wildly — Read More