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Coming to Terms with Boston’s Racist Legacy in “Small Mercies” – Chicago Review of Books

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Coming to Terms with Boston’s Racist Legacy in “Small Mercies” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] From the Kenzie and Gennaro novels that established him as a master of new noir, to the haunting crime thriller Mystic River and his magnum opus of the 1919 Boston Police Strike, The Given Day, Dennis Lehane has captured Boston neighborhoods with more grit, vitality, and unerring precision than any writer in recent memory. … Read more

Art and Culture on Their Own Terms in “Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts” – Chicago Review of Books

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Art and Culture on Their Own Terms in “Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] “Sitting down to write a letter, with an addressee and signatory, is an intimate experience,” editors Christopher K. Ho and Daisy Nam write in the introduction of Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts. The pretext is deceptively simple: Ho, a visual artist, and Nam, a curator, invited Asian Americans, loosely defined, working … Read more