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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 27, 2018
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Ghosts of War narrates more than it represents
This adaptation of an Iraq war memoir by a "GI Joe Schmoe" is strangely lifeless.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 6, 2018
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Daniel Biss on Abu Ghraib, how to resist the urge to check out at the words ‘pension crisis,’ and what he's learned from Michael Madigan
The Illinois gubernatorial candidate talks about the arc of progressive politics and what's required to bring change to the state capitol.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2016
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'What We Carried' tells the stories of Iraqi refugees through objects
A new exhibition at the Illinois Holocaust Museum shows everything new immigrants have left behind.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature May 7, 2015
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Aleksandar Hemon on the making of The Making of Zombie Wars
The author of The Book of My Lives talks about bringing together horror movies, the Iraq war, Jewish culture, and a peculiar kind of writer's block in his latest novel.
- Film, Movie Review Jan 14, 2015
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Bradley Cooper is number one with a bullet in American Sniper
Clint Eastwood directs the story of Navy SEALS sniper Chris Kyle
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 6, 2015
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The American military not so smartly inspected in the Atlantic
James Fallows's January/February cover story on the American military could be a little more thoughtful.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2014
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In never-ending wars, the U.S. is on a losing streak
America keeps losing wars—without effect.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2014
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Mayor Rahm's crime-fighting mission remains unaccomplished
Remember last week, when the mayor held a press conference to claim he'd made the city safer—just days before the Fourth of July carnage?
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 18, 2014
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A pilot brings the war home in American Blues Theater's Grounded
George Brant scores a direct hit with his one-woman play.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 21, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Sun 4/21: Sister Souljah, The Happiest Song Plays Last, and Kvelertak
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, April 21, 2013.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Apr 17, 2013
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The restorative powers of pita
Deta's Pita offered shelter from the cold—and from the dread of war.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Mar 4, 2013
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Stephen Petronio Company finds a little light in Underland
Stephen Petronio's dance piece rises from the post-9/11 darkness.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2012
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Obama's deafening silence on poverty
The president knows how to avoid a subject
- News & Politics, Sidebar Feb 16, 2012
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The $12 million protest
The last major Chicago protest cost the city a pretty penny. Will history repeat itself when G8 and NATO come to town?
- News & Politics, Sidebar Feb 9, 2012
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My Bloody Valentine
Worst dates: "It kind of all makes sense that she would blow me while I played Call of Duty"
- News & Politics, Chicago Reader at Forty Aug 25, 2011
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2003
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 17, 2011
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The Road to Fallujah
Proudly "unembedded" in Iraq, Mark Manning claims to be the only Western journalist living among the civilians in the aftermath of the Battle of Fallujah, whose devastating consequences he documented in "The Road to Fallujah," screening for free Tuesday 1/18 at DePaul University.
- Film, Movie Review Mar 18, 2010
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Fighting Lies With Fiction
Green Zone reduces America's blundering invasion of Iraq to a generic thriller.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2009
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Walter Cronkite, Jon Stewart, and trust
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2009
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Never mind Bruno, here's The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow's heart-stopping war movie is being showered with accolades, all deserved. Also this week: Bruno, the Chicago premiere of Godard's Made in U.S.A., and a brooding (what else?) documentary on Beethoven.
- Film, Movie Review Jul 9, 2009
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Recent History
The Hurt Locker: the first post-Iraq Iraq war movie
- Blogs, Bleader May 11, 2009
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Who cares?
Readers don't demand coverage of the Iraq war and newspapers can't afford it, so what's the difference if it's important?
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 23, 2009
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Pots not bombs
The Chicago Anarchist Film Festival's opening night film, "On the Verge: The Smash EDO Campaign," documents the five-year-long protest outside a British plant aimed at disrupting the supply of arms for the Iraq war.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2008
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On Eartha Kitt and Harold Pinter
Reflecting on the deaths of Harold Pinter and Eartha Kitt.
