Not quite Detroit—Chicago as described by a New York Times.
Some Windy City residents feel Rachel Shteir should either love Chicago or leave it, as one editorial cartoon suggested. Nevertheless, she's not backing down from her criticisms.(Marion Ettlinger.Check out this History Author Show episode from last week, featuring Dan Arsenault’s Church for Skeptics episodes Messiah Factor and Is Jesus the Messiah?, plus Joseph Read giving voice to Apostle Peter. Additional information on the dating of the crucifixion is well-sourced and compiled in James D. Agresti’s book, Rational Conclusions.Defining Chicago. If you live in Chicago, you’re probably familiar by now with the duststorm unleashed by Rachel Shteir, an expatriate New Yorker and heretofore obscure professor at the city’s DePaul University, who wrote a review of three Chicago-related books which led the New York Times Book Review on April 21. Actually, it wasn’t a review so much as an excuse for an essay by Shteir.
Rachel Shteir. A Takedown of the City Takedown. Why it's worth ranting against Rachel Shteir's Chicago essay. By Molly Redden. April 26, 2013. Page 1. Next. Support independent journalism.If you've lived in any major American city long enough, sooner or later you will have the grave misfortune of meeting a certain type of person. This type is that insufferable bore who is consumed.
Rachel Shteir, AB’87, has lived in Chicago for a total of 17 years, but has probably never felt less at home. After the New York Times ran her review of three new Chicago books—which included a few sharp, if not exactly untrue, observations about the city—she's been pilloried in print, on television, and especially on the Internet. In a follow-up piece for the New York Observer, Shteir.
