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Posted inCity Life

The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days eight and nine

by Reader staff March 28, 2020August 18, 2021

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

Posted inBlogs

Books we can’t wait to read in 2018

by Aimee Levitt December 31, 2017August 18, 2021

Bill Clinton has written a thriller about a missing president! And nearly 100 other ways to escape the oncoming shit show.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best New Book by a Former Chicago Golden Gloves Champ

by Jerome Ludwig June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

When he describes an ass whoopin’, you know he knows what he’s talking about.

Posted inBlogs

Your summer reading: The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

by Aimee Levitt June 13, 2014August 18, 2021

Susan Jane Gilman’s new novel is good company on long, stinky el rides.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Impending death is not necessarily a negative development

by Michael Miner April 23, 2014August 18, 2021

In getting a new liver, I consider myself fortunate in one small respect in addition to the obvious big one.

Posted inArts & Culture

Family secrets fill Julia Glass’s And the Dark Sacred Night

by Aimee Levitt April 15, 2014August 18, 2021

As a successor to the National Book Award-winning Three Junes, Julia Glass’s And the Dark Sacred Night is just good enough.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Book of Unknown Americans features a pair of powerhouse immigrant oral histories

by Jonathan Messinger April 15, 2014August 18, 2021

Cristina Henríquez crafts a powerhouse pair of immigrant oral histories in her novel The Book of Unknown Americans.

Posted inArts & Culture

The politics of fiction in O, Democracy!

by Laura Pearson April 15, 2014August 18, 2021

Kathleen Rooney’s debut novel is rooted in her disillusioning experience as an aide to a senator from Illinois.

Posted inArts & Culture

What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival 2013

by Steve Bogira, Aimee Levitt, Janet Potter, Connie Vaughn and Sam Worley November 13, 2013August 19, 2021

What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Robots, pigs, Bambi, and more

Posted inArts & Culture

The Reader’s guide to the Printers Row Lit Fest

by Jena Cutie, Aimee Levitt, Kate Schmidt, Julia Thiel and Kevin Warwick June 6, 2013August 19, 2021

Reader critics’ picks: Judy Blume, Art Spiegelman, D.T. Max, Haki Madhubuti, and more

Nussbaum in her Lakeview apartment
Posted inArts & Culture

Susan Nussbaum’s next act

by Sam Worley May 30, 2013August 19, 2021

Celebrated playwright and disability rights activist Susan Nussbaum adds a novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, to her body of work.

The Oak Park dance troupe Momenta, which includes both disabled and nondisabled dancers, will give a performance called Counter Balance.
Posted inArts & Culture

The art of disability on display at Bodies of Work

by Aimee Levitt May 7, 2013August 19, 2021

The Bodies of Work Festival puts people with disabilities on the stage, on the screen, behind the mike, and in the audience.

Posted inArts & Culture

From Averill to Zeus: A local lit roundup

by Sam Worley, Aimee Levitt, Kevin Warwick, Tal Rosenberg and Jena Cutie April 3, 2013August 19, 2021

From Averill to Zeus: A local lit roundup

Posted inArts & Culture

The Books Issue: Violence

by Reader staff April 3, 2013August 19, 2021

The Books Issue: Violence

Posted inArts & Culture

Who’s to blame for violence against Native women?

by Steve Bogira April 3, 2013August 19, 2021

In The Round House, Louise Erdrich assigns easy blame for a tough problem.

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