Reality Instruction
James Lasdun: In Court and on the Road, 23 April 2026
“... by the designation, which had a reassuringly official ring. The next morning I took a bus to the Cook County Criminal Court, a fifty-minute bus ride from the Loop and a world away from its corporate towers. There were dozens of courtrooms inside the building and I went to the clerk’s office to see if I could find out what was happening where. ‘We have ... ”