Interview: Gloria Chao on Love and Romance in the Asian Diaspora
In Gloria Chao’s third YA novel Rent A Boyfriend, University of Chicago freshman Chloe Wang suddenly has to worry about more than grades when her parents start pressuring her to […]
Dialogs: Joy Harjo and Layli Long Soldier Discuss Mapping, Decoloniality, and the Wind in CHF Panel
What if you could build a holographic map, in which all America’s Indigenous poets, from the beginning of time until now, were mapped, linking out to their works and their […]
Review: Private Arts, The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America, by Lisa Z Sigel
The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America By Lisa Z Sigel Reaktion Books Masturbation is the only sex act that’s both universal and forbidden. Universal in that […]
Dialogs: We Examine the Short Story with George Saunders and Four Russian Masters in CHF Event
As if to prove his versatility as a writer and creator, George Saunders’ latest book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, is not a work of his own […]
Review: Another Day’s Begun Recasts Thornton Wilder’s Our Town as a Play That Speaks to Our Time
Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st CenturyBy Howard ShermanMetheun Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Like most theater critics and theater lovers, I’ve seen Thornton Wilder’s Our Town […]
Dialogs: The Pentagon Papers 50 Years Later with Geoffrey Stone and Guests in CHF Event
Fifty years ago, Daniel Ellsberg, an economist and military analyst, created a national controversy that resulted in a landmark press freedom decision by the US Supreme Court. He did it […]
Review: How Soul Got Its Soul, Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power, by Aaron Cohen
Move on Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power By Aaron Cohen University of Chicago Press One of the pleasures of reading Aaron Cohen’s 2019 Move On Up: Chicago […]
Review: A Pride Parade on Paper, Queer Legacies, by John D’Emilio
Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives John D’Emilio University of Chicago Press Reviewed by Carr Harkrader Who doesn’t love a parade? It wouldn’t be completely wrong to describe Queer […]
Dialogs: Walter Isaacson and Steve Edwards Discuss Hope, Ethics, and Evolution in CHF Panel
Author, journalist, and academic Walter Isaacson and WBEZ’s chief content officer Steve Edwards were brought together virtually to speak to the Chicago Humanities Festival about Isaacson’s new biography The Code […]
Review: Everything You Never Knew about Chicago and Nature, City of Lake and Prairie
City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago’s Environmental History edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan, Ann Durkin Keating, and William C. Barnett University of Pittsburgh Press A little more than a century […]
Interview: Don Evans, Sandra Cisneros, and the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
Even via Zoom, Don Evans is passionate about Chicago’s relationship with the written word. A writer, editor, and teacher, Evans is also the executive director of the Chicago Literary Hall […]
Dialogs: Bill Gates Brings Tech-Infused Optimism to Climate Change in CHF Panel
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates brought a technology-infused optimism to the Chicago Humanities Festival panel in which he and actors Dax Shepard and Monica Padman, discussed Gates’ new book, […]