Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5757 S. University Ave.
Chicago, 773-752-4381
1. Radical Hope
By Jonathan Lear
Harvard University Press, 22.95
The University of Chicago professor examines the Crow Indians and seeks to explain how societies can carry on while facing cultural catastrophe.
2. The Inheritance of Loss
By Kiran Desai
Grove/Atlantic, $14 paper
This novel of hope and betrayal in India and New York City won Britain’s Man Booker Prize.
3. Black on the Block
By Mary Pattillo
University of Chicago Press, $29
The Northwestern University sociologist looks at the workings of race and class in the revitalization of a South Side neighborhood.
4. Istanbul: Memories and the City
By Orhan Pamuk
Vintage, $14.95 paper
A portrait of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost literary resident.
5. Of Farming and Classics
By David Grene
University of Chicago Press, $30
The late David Grene’s portrait of his life split between farming in Ireland and teaching at the University of Chicago.
