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Dialogs: Considering Contagion with Maddow and Schama at Chicago Humanities Festival Events

This autumn’s Chicago Humanities Festival is chock-a-block with notable writers. That focus is normal for one of the Windy City’s…

  • Karin McKie
  • November 7, 2023
  • Comics and Graphic Novels, Events, Interviews, Lit, Live lit events, Music, Nonfiction

Review: Something Out of Nothing—New Book Shares the History and Images of Garage Rock Label Estrus Records

Chris Coyle and designer Scott Sugiuchi will attend a book release party at Quimby’s Bookstore (1854 W North Ave) on…

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 21, 2023
  • Essays, Events, Fiction, Lit, Nonfiction, Poetry

Shortlist Announced for 2023 Chicago Review of Books Awards

The 2023 Chicago Review of Books Awards shortlist includes literary works ranging in subject matter from queer motherhood to belonging and migration, Chicago’s Black cowboy culture, and women’s overlooked heroism during World War II.
  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • October 20, 2023
  • Chicago history, Events, Food, Lit, Live lit events, Nonfiction, Recipes

Review: Consuming My Religion: Holy Food, by Christina Ward

No matter how busy they were creating the universe, some gods always found time to lay down the law on…

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 13, 2023
  • Architecture, Beyond, Chicago history, Chicago history, Children's books, Comics and Graphic Novels, Fiction, Lit, Nonfiction, Poetry, Soapbox

Essay: In Defense of “Unregulated” Little Free Libraries

Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) thinks the little free libraries along many Chicago sidewalks are bad—very bad. They are “unregulated”! And they’re…

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • October 12, 2023
  • Essays, Lit, Nonfiction

Review: A Limited Concept and Beautiful Prose Make for Mixed Reading in Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook, by Sonya Huber

In her new book Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook Sonya Huber offers a collection of effective essays mostly about…

  • Adam Kaz
  • September 15, 2023
  • Chicago history, Chicago history, Children's books, Essays, Event, Lit, Live lit events, Nonfiction, Poetry

Printers Row on Saturday: A Celebration of Community

Near the end of Saturday at this year’s Printers Row Lit Fest, an 80-year-old Italian painter from the North Shore…

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • September 9, 2023
  • Lit, Music, Nonfiction, Reviews

Review: Truest Metal: Heroes of the Metal Underground, by Alexandros Anesiadis with Yannis Skarpelos

Metal, as a genre, is an amusing blend of arrogance and earnestness. Look past the leather and chains, wind-milling manes,…

  • Dan Kelly
  • September 7, 2023
  • Lit, Nonfiction

Review: A Riveting Account of a Nation of Fear, I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile’s Dictatorship, 1975, by Kathleen Osberger

Kathleen Osberger’s account of her three harrowing months as a religious volunteer with a community of Catholic nuns in Chile…

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • September 6, 2023
  • Chicago history, Comedy, Lit, Nonfiction, Theater

Review: Jeffrey Sweet Updates His Second City History—Now With That Elusive Viola Spolin Interview

Forty-five years ago, Jeffrey Sweet wrote a book—the story of Second City, which was then only about a decade old.…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • August 2, 2023
  • Chicago history, Lit, Nonfiction

Review: An Important Story, Lost in the Details, Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition, by Mark Walczynski

The expedition of discovery Louis Jolliet, a merchant-explorer, and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit priest, undertook with five other men in…

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • August 2, 2023
  • Chicago history, Lit, Nonfiction

Review: Fighting for the Marginalized, Ed Marciniak’s City and Church: A Voice of Conscience, by Charles Shanabruch

In late 1972, Ed Marciniak, a perennial social critic and justice activist, became president of the Institute of Urban Life,…

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • July 27, 2023
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