No-fault divorces are currently legal in every US state, making it relatively easy to end an unhappy marriage. It may be hard to imagine how recently “irreconcilable differences” were not […]

Evil Eyes Sea is preoccupied with objects: how they become imbued with their owners’ lives and remain after those people are gone. In her autobiographically-inspired graphic novel, Özge Samancı skillfully […]

We were fast running out of time. At one point, we didn’t think even we would make it. It was our first time joining the annual Independent Bookstore Day’s Chicagoland […]

No mise en place necessary for Jane Bertch. The born and raised Chicagoan turned Parisian details how she went from her meat and potatoes Midwest upbringing, working toward a career […]

Spring has sprung, and the ever-eclectic Chicago Humanities Festival is flowering all over the city. Belvidere, Illinois-born architect Jeanne Gang spoke to an SRO crowd about her new book The […]

Everyone knows they’ll die, but few people believe it. For the sole species aware of its mortality, personal nonexistence is inconceivable. Many have come near death. A number of folks […]

One of the first questions a stranger usually asks to identify who you are is, what do you do? But our job is more than how we make money, it […]

Everyone looked up On Michigan AvenueOn balconies and rooftopsBy the AdlerWe all looked up. We all felt giddyGrateful even for this momentPeople waved their solar glasses at each otherAs if we […]

Like many history books, Steven Conn’s The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America For What It Is—And Isn’t is a showcase of and argument for nuanced thinking. In his […]

Percival Everett has published 30-some books—mostly novels—over his career, but he has not been a well-known author in the literary zeitgeist. But the LA-based author has a large Chicago fan […]

Kara Swisher has a lot of opinions—and she doesn’t hesitate to share them, both in her new book and in her conversation with social work professor Brené Brown before a sold-out […]

Interview and article by Katherine Frazer. The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice tells the story of three women across the globe, all united in their search for justice against their […]