Susan Porterfield

We all do this: Stand in the greeting card aisle, staring at the mass of manufactured sentiments, trying to decide which will suffice because we can't…

Every Mother's Day, millions of Americans take Mom to brunch. Kids try to repay a year of home-cooked meals with breakfast in bed. And those remembering a…

Pick up WNIJ's book bag and turn it over. What falls out?Two novels, one book of poems, and a story collection -- all by northern Illinois writers.Each…

Recently, it seems like familiar fault lines are reappearing in American society:Divisions involving race.Violence involving police and their local…