Year: 2006

I don’t think I have mentioned this but I have joined with Ed in attempting to read 75 books in 2006. Seeing how I read 73 books last year I figured I cou...

I am not a regular reader of the New York Times. In fact, I don’t read a lot of newspapers in general. But at some point or another I signed up for the Ne...

I have an odd relationship to “suburbia” as a place and as a concept. Having grown up mostly in small town environments I find myself in a sort of n...

Henry Kisor is the book editor and literary columnist of the Chicago Sun-Times as well as the author of three nonfiction books and two mystery novels. He is als...

I recently read two books about the lives of two soldiers in two different armies. The first, Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq by Jason Hartle...

In my review of Henry Kisor’s first novel, Season’s Revenge, I noted that the work had the markings of a good mystery series: I know Mr. Kisor is pr...