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Review: Lock & Load: Armed Fiction, Guns and the American Imagination

Guest reviewer June Skinner Sawyers is a writer and editor; she has published many books on music and travel, including works on Bob Dylan, the Beatles and Bruce Springsteen. She is the […]

  • Guest Author
  • April 11, 2018
    • Events , Lit , Reviews

    Commune With the City’s Dead In New Book About Chicago Cemeteries, Chicago Eternal

    Cemeteries remind us this is a city of change in multiple ways. Not just the impermanence and fragility of life, but in the ways the landscape of the city shifts […]

  • Andrew Hertzberg
  • April 2, 2018
    • Lit , Reviews

    Bitch Planet Vol. 1 is Well Worth the Read

    Given the current political climate and the completely welcome rebellion against male-dominated media, it’s no surprise that a comic like Bitch Planet hits all the right feminist notes. A quick-witted and […]

  • Kate Scott
  • February 15, 2018
    • Lit , Reviews

    Up in Here Falls Flat in Form, But Starts a Necessary Conversation

    Up in Here is the memoir of writer Mark Dostert. Having written for publications like Salon and the Houston Chronicle, Dostert has written Up in Here, his first full book, about his experience as a […]

  • Sherry Zhong
  • February 1, 2018
    • About , Lit , Reviews

    The Best Books We’ve Read in 2017

    Sometimes, you read something that makes you stop. It clings to you. A few of our writers spoke of the books that have stripped them of their expectations. Here are […]

  • Sherry Zhong
  • December 20, 2017
    • Art & Museums , Design , Lit , Reviews

    Pioneers of German Graphic Design Shows Links to Chicago’s Graphic Design History

    Pioneers of German Graphic Design by Jens Müller is a deep dive into the early history of graphic design and demonstrates why Germany (and Austria and Switzerland) are so important […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • November 13, 2017
    • Food , Lit , Reviews

    The Chicago Food Encyclopedia: The Best Gift for the Food Obsessed

    The gift-giving season is upon us. And if you are like me, you struggle to find the perfect gift for the person who seems to have everything. Happily, I have […]

  • Cynthia Kallile
  • November 10, 2017
    • Events , Lit , Reviews

    Machado Challenges Literary and Sexual Forms in Her Body and Other Parties

    Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties is a brilliant collection that makes you forget normal short stories. The most experimental story in her debut–at least in terms of […]

  • Allison Manley
  • November 1, 2017
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: Windy City Blues Layers Love and Politics Over the Early Days of Chicago Electric Blues

    Note: Windy City Blues has been selected by Spertus Institute for its One Book One Community book of the year. Spertus has several events planned around Rosen’s book. If you […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 29, 2017
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Book Review: Mycology and its Mighty Ending

    Joan Wilking’s prose is breezy even though the material is heavy. Her first book Mycology is the winner of the 2016 Wild Onion Novella Prize bestowed by Chicago publisher Curbside Splendor. […]

  • Sherry Zhong
  • October 11, 2017
    • Lit , Reviews , Uncategorized

    Chicago’s Literati Harmonize in Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology

    Have you ever contributed to a church or neighborhood cookbook? Have you ever bought one? Are matriarchal communities still pooling their creativity into volumes of recipes as a testament to […]

  • Emma Terhaar
  • August 19, 2017
    • Lit , Reviews

    Steve Wiley’s Grown-up Chicago Fairytale Lacks a Happy Ending

    Steve Wiley, Fairytale Chicago,

    New York is a city of legends. Los Angeles is a town of myths. In The Fairytale Chicago of Francesca Finnegan, author Steve Wiley frames the city in a milieu […]

  • Guest Author
  • August 8, 2017
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