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…
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…
The Music Box Theatre hosted music royalty as part of the spring Chicago Humanities Festival: Sonic Youth’s frontwoman Kim Gordon, her co-author,…
The Chicago Humanities Festival has been offering in-person programs under the spring theme of “Public.” Two programs on May 7…
I gave high praise to Terence Blanchard’s opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The opening night performance at the…
By Carr Harkrader With its dramatic palazzo ornamentation, twinkling star-lit ceiling, and mischievous cherubs nuzzling within insets, the Music Box…
Debbie Millman has been podcasting since before there were podcasts. She has produced more than 500 interviews over the 16+…
We all carry secrets, but not everyone has the courage to sit under stage lights, before an audience awash in…
Salman Rushdie is sometimes asked why, in this age of lies, he chooses to write fiction, adding more untruths to…
History doesn’t repeat, Mark Twain said: it rhymes. And, as poet and playwright Cornelius Eady and performer Joe Morton both…
DeeMost of us don’t think of imagination when we think of the Secret Service, if we think of them at…
The Chicago Humanities Festival continued its Chicago Neighborhood Series with a panel of three journalists from Chicago’s community media, mainly…
The Chicago River, as many of us know, once flowed the other way, into Lake Michigan. It was reversed—a triumph…
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