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Review: VGA Gallery’s System Link: Video Game as Memoir Strikes a Poignant Chord

How do you tell someone what it feels like when your child dies of cancer? How do you express the pain of knowing they’re fading away? What about the importance […]

Marielle Bokor /
Stages, Theater

Steppenwolf’sYou Got Older Succeeds as a Quietly Realized Family Story

After seeing Steppenwolf’s Chicago premiere of Clare Barron’s poignant play, You Got Older, I felt the need to text my sister. Much like Barron’s protagonist, Mae (Caroline Neff), my sister, […]

Brent Eickhoff /
Lit, Reviews

Review: Anne Elizabeth Moore’s Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

Body Horror, Anne Elizabeth Moore

Much has been made of the importance of the body as a site of social, cultural, and economic forces. From books like Judy Norsigian’s Our Bodies, Ourselves and Dorothy Roberts’ […]

James Orbesen /