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Posted inCity Life

The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: day 20

by Reader staff April 9, 2020August 18, 2021

What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt tells the story of the philosopher’s life and thoughts in pictures

by Andrea Gronvall November 16, 2018August 18, 2021

Or how gag cartoonist Ken Krimstein took the plunge into midcentury philosophy.

Posted inMusic

What Chicago media gets wrong about Chance, Keef, and the local hip-hop scene

by Leor Galil December 21, 2017August 18, 2021

Critics who fall back on shallow tropes and ignorant cliches deny us an enriching understanding of the musical cultures in our own backyard.

Posted inNews & Politics

Chicago’s Second City inferiority complex has mutated into a nasty superiority complex

by Ian Belknap December 20, 2017August 18, 2021

Due to the city’s also-ran self-image, no perceived slight can go unanswered.

Posted inArts & Culture

The lines of Saul Steinberg’s mind

by Dmitry Samarov June 7, 2017August 18, 2021

A new exhibit at the Art Institute exemplifies the genius of the 20th-century artist.

Posted inBlogs

The dividing line between the U.S. and Canada

by Michael Miner May 12, 2017August 18, 2021

An addendum to Adam Gopnik’s argument that “we could have been Canada.”

Posted inArts & Culture

The Chicago education of George Saunders

by Tal Rosenberg February 21, 2017August 18, 2021

The celebrated short-story writer and recent debut novelist discusses his formative years in and around the city of his birth.

Posted inBlogs

If Mitt Romney wants to run the State Department, I’m down with that

by Michael Miner December 2, 2016August 18, 2021

Let’s not shame Mitt Romney out of the State Department.

Posted inFood & Drink

Catching a buzz without the booze at Chicago’s first kava bar

by Julia Thiel May 25, 2016August 18, 2021

Wicker Park’s Tropikava Kafe serves up an alcohol alternative that promises relaxing, even euphoric effects.

Posted inBlogs

Democratic primary shows a gulf remains between Chicago’s black and Latino voters

by Steve Bogira March 22, 2016August 18, 2021

Hillary Clinton won Chicago’s black wards; Bernie Sanders dominated in the city’s Latino wards.

Posted inBlogs

Mayor Rahm takes off his sweater, drops an F-bomb in the New Yorker’s Father Pfleger profile

by Jake Malooley February 22, 2016August 18, 2021

“All the assumptions you have about me are fucking wrong,” Emanuel tells the New Yorker‘s Evan Osnos.

Posted inBlogs

Emanuel discovers the need for police accountability reforms

by Steve Bogira December 2, 2015August 18, 2021

Four and a half years after he assumed office—but only one week after the release of the Laquan McDonald video—the mayor determines that the city’s police review authority needs to be examined.

Posted inArts & Culture

Childfree people are not that selfish, shallow, and self-absorbed

by Aimee Levitt October 30, 2015August 18, 2021

An interview with author Meghan Daum about writers’ decisions not to have kids

Posted inArts & Culture

A New Yorker writer looks back on his quest for the perfect wave

by Mark Sorkin July 13, 2015August 18, 2021

In Barbarian Days, William Finnegan reflects on a lifetime of surfing.

Posted inBlogs

In Saint Mazie, Jami Attenberg fleshes out Joseph Mitchell’s downtown dame with a heart of gold

by Aimee Levitt June 26, 2015August 18, 2021

Jami Attenberg probes the source of her heart of gold in her new novel.

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