Announcement: More on the Midwest; Malcolm Harris Book Event

I wish every reader a happy Wednesday, and to my Christian readers, a productively mournful Ash Wednesday and Lent season. Two quick announcements. One, my review of Jon K. Lauck’s history of the nineteenth-century Midwest is up at New Republic, where it benefits immeasurably from the editorial interventions of Laura Marsh. (I’m not being ironic; she ma…