There is a lot of conversation (in polite circles anyway) about the rise and fall of political fortunes. There seems to be a sort of malaise in segments of the neo-liberal community – yes, th…

I’ve been immersed in the ecosystem of career pathways for a while now, and there are obvious flaws with the metaphor: they’re never clear or obvious like maps, they’re not carefu…

The Bone Season is the first of a series of novels set in a supernatural dystopia. Shannon’s world is an interesting one, and the combination of alternative history and the use of voyants as …

Lauren Groff’s The Vaster Wilds is a survival story page-turner, an odd things to say about the genre, especially when it’s clear that the protagonist ain’t gonna make it. In it a…

Reviewing a beautiful curriculum developed by the Chicago Job Council (there website is here: this morning, and the text led me to wonder about the balances that workforce development organizations…

We went to see Nosferatu at the Nightlight (of course), and I’m still not sure what to think. It’s beautifully done, invoking the original as well as the whole range of German expressio…

Sabaa Tahir’s All My Rage had me at the title, and the novel itself is a powerful description of what it’s like growing up as an immigrant in a nation that is split on how to work with …

Kelly Link’s Get In Trouble (Wikipedia link discussing the collection is here: is a series of beautiful meditations through short stories on the presence of ghosts in our lives. I enjoyed Mag…