Life Lessons from the Early Greeks” – Chicago Review of Books

Life Lessons from the Early Greeks” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] On the “wine-dark” Aegean seas of Homer’s Odyssey, the merchants of Tyre and Sidon, of Byblos and Carthage, put out from their home ports—busy hives of activity crammed with merchants from all over the ancient world—in order to, like free-flowing dolphins, traverse the waterways of the Mediterranean. This ease of connection was not only … Read more

Lessons in Loving in “Blue Hour” – Chicago Review of Books

Lessons in Loving in “Blue Hour” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The shortest novels I have read tend to follow one of two trajectories: a steady build towards a climactic event, or regular shifts between calm and upset. Tiffany Clarke Harrison’s debut novel Blue Hour is of the latter variety, keeping you poised for disaster with the turn of every page. The multi-ethnic photographer who … Read more