by Matthew Friedman | Aug 5, 2019 | Books, Reviews
Tom Sleigh, The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing In an Age of Refugees. Graywolf Press, 2018. 272 pp. In his collection of essays, The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees, Tom Sleigh recalls looking down with astonishment from an airplane window,...
by Matthew Friedman | Aug 4, 2019 | Commentary
I saw the headline on my phone’s home screen as we made our way to the Loop (Chicago’s downtown) for an early al-fresco dinner on the Riverwalk, and a concert at Harris Theater in Millennium Park. I read “Multiple Victims in El Paso Shooting,” and did not read...
by Matthew Friedman | Jul 31, 2019 | Essays, Photo Essay
On any given morning, there is a trail of fish parts and entrails leading along the Liberty State Park boardwalk on the western bank of the Hudson river. The New York City skyline glows in the Golden Hour light like a picture postcard. A fish head here – its eyes...
by Matthew Friedman | Jul 29, 2019 | Books, Reviews
Bruce Cornforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow, Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson. Chicago Review Press, 2019. 336 pp. If you know anything about Robert Johnson, it is that he sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads in order to become the greatest of...
by Matthew Friedman | Jul 24, 2019 | Commentary
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the...
