Dialogs, Lit, Nonfiction

Dialogs: Qian Julie Wang and Greta Johnsen Discuss Beauty, Secrecy, Fear, and Freedom at CHF panel

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We all carry secrets, but not everyone has the courage to sit under stage lights, before an audience awash in shadows, and tell them to the world. But immigration attorney […]

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Dialogs, Lit, Live lit events

Dialogs: Cornelius Eady and Joe Morton Discuss the Rhymes of History in CHF Panel

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History doesn’t repeat, Mark Twain said: it rhymes. And, as poet and playwright Cornelius Eady and performer Joe Morton both noted during their conversation about Eady’s Brutal Imagination, it keeps […]

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Dialogs, Lit, Live lit events

Dialogs: Heather McGhee and Helene Gayle Discuss Stories, Politics, Economics, and the Hope for Change in CHF Panel

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Most of us probably don’t think of economics as an optimistic field. For some of us it pulls up thoughts of Milton Friedman; for others, it’s relegated to a class […]

Caitlin Archer-Helke /
Events, Lit, Stages

Review: Madeline Miller, Author of Best Seller Circe, Charms at Chicago Humanities Fest

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By Valerie Nikolas Power. It’s the theme of this year’s Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF), now in its 30th year of attracting compelling and thoughtful speakers to Chicago. It’s also the central […]

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Fiction, Lit, Live lit events

George Saunders, Pop Culture Phenom, Comes to Chicago

I’ve liked George Saunders’ since I read his short story collection Pastoralia as a freshman in college. I’d never read anything like it. There was a historical re-enactment theme park, […]

Emma Terhaar /
Food, Lit

Feasting on Fat Rice: A Conversation in Review

If you had asked me a week ago if I knew what Macanese and Polynesian fusion cuisine was, I would have ZERO clue what to tell you. Not only have I […]

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