Dialogs: How Chicagoans and Russians Write—CHF’s Chat with Author George Saunders
Oak Forest native to the “political left of Gandhi,” essayist and award-winning author George Saunders returned to Chicagoland to talk about writing with Wait…
Dialogs: Female Rock Talk with Kim Gordon, Laurie Anderson, Sinead Gleeson at Chicago Humanities Festival
The Music Box Theatre hosted music royalty as part of the spring Chicago Humanities Festival: Sonic Youth’s frontwoman Kim Gordon, her co-author,…
Dialogs: Anita Hill Talks About Need to Believe Women in Chicago Humanities Festival Event
The Chicago Humanities Festival has been offering in-person programs under the spring theme of “Public.” Two programs on May 7…
Dialogs: “Talking Race at the Opera” by the Chicago Humanities Festival
I gave high praise to Terence Blanchard’s opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The opening night performance at the…
Dialogs: Actor/Performer/Etc. Alan Cumming Brings Charm and Stories to Chicago Humanities Festival
By Carr Harkrader With its dramatic palazzo ornamentation, twinkling star-lit ceiling, and mischievous cherubs nuzzling within insets, the Music Box…
Dialogs: Podcaster/Designer Debbie Millman Talks About Why Design Matters and What We Can Do About It
Debbie Millman has been podcasting since before there were podcasts. She has produced more than 500 interviews over the 16+…
Dialogs: Qian Julie Wang and Greta Johnsen Discuss Beauty, Secrecy, Fear, and Freedom at CHF panel
We all carry secrets, but not everyone has the courage to sit under stage lights, before an audience awash in…
Dialogs: Salman Rushdie and Srikanth Reddy Discuss Power, Truth, and the Imaginary in CHF Panel
Salman Rushdie is sometimes asked why, in this age of lies, he chooses to write fiction, adding more untruths to…
Dialogs: Cornelius Eady and Joe Morton Discuss the Rhymes of History in CHF Panel
History doesn’t repeat, Mark Twain said: it rhymes. And, as poet and playwright Cornelius Eady and performer Joe Morton both…
Dialogs: Carol Leonnig and Andrea Mitchell Discuss the Secret Service, Politicization, Failures of Imagination
DeeMost of us don’t think of imagination when we think of the Secret Service, if we think of them at…
Dialogs: “Accountability” Has a Special Meaning for Community Journalists in CHF Neighborhood Series
The Chicago Humanities Festival continued its Chicago Neighborhood Series with a panel of three journalists from Chicago’s community media, mainly…
Dialogs: Elizabeth Kolbert and Eula Biss Talk Unintended Consequences and Problems Caused by Solutions in CHF Panel
The Chicago River, as many of us know, once flowed the other way, into Lake Michigan. It was reversed—a triumph…
