Samizdat Blog

The critic Robert von Hallberg has retired from the faculty at the University of Chicago, and the editors of the Chicago Review  have ma...

If you'd wandered into the garden lobby of the Museum of Modern Art early last February, you might have met the sight (and considerab...

The seasons govern us, we professors, just as surely as they governed our agrarian ancestors.   Like farmers, we find the nature of our wo...

So there I was, rooting around trying to put some order into the Augean stable that is my hard drive, when I ran across a little document ...