Hang on
January 26, 2022
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 26, 2022 The Earth spins at 1,000 miles an hour. That’s more than 16 miles a minute, 1,400 feet a second. Like
It is a vanity project and a writing closet, a treasure chest for news, views and reviews.
More prosaically, it provides a store house for my writing. Some of it is quirky – poems, sayings and asides. There are movie and book reviews, profiles and other articles from my past and present sojourn as a journalist. Plus my new book — The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past!
Novel
The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past
A thrilling, highly imaginative and tautly written journey back in time to find “the tool to unrule” a post-American fascism.
“Brilliant,” says National Book Award winner and MacArthur Genius Fellow Charles Johnson of “The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past.”
“A great tale, brilliantly told,” says violist and international recording artist Roger Chase. “There are surprises on every page, and the end, which comes only too soon, is a coda of marvelous drama, invention and imagination.”
Irwin Weil on the Russian classics, Putin and Shostakovich
January 12, 2022
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 12, 2022 Reading ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ in college changed his life Irwin Weil is still going strong at 93, and when asked
State of the States
December 30, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 29, 2021 Think you know your U.S. geography? Current on your cities? Confident of your counties? Up to speed on your states?
My so-called journalism career
December 25, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 10, 2021 I am thrilled and privileged to write and edit for the RoundTable. My odyssey with the newspaper began some 15
What we know about Evanston
December 23, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 23, 2021 I had to admit, I chuckled when I read this hometown dig by the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay in
Last year’s essential workers are still essential
December 22, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 22, 2021 In what already seems like a lifetime ago but was actually spring of 2020, signs started popping up on Evanston
A.I. ate my homework
December 2, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 1, 2021 The bots are coming. And not just over the horizon, people, but right now, right here, in your computer and
Time to downsize the American empire: An interview with Northwestern historian Daniel Immerwahr
November 30, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 29, 2021 In the latest installment of its occasional opinion series, “Snap Out of It, America!” the New York Times on November
‘Inspiring’ music professor Victor Yampolsky begins last season teaching and conducting at NU
October 23, 2021
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 22, 2021 After more than four decades of conducting, Victor Yampolsky will soon be hanging up his baton. The distinguished maestro, the