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- City Life, Stay at Home Mar 28, 2020
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days eight and nine
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 31, 2017
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Books we can't wait to read in 2018
Bill Clinton has written a thriller about a missing president! And nearly 100 other ways to escape the oncoming shit show.
- Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
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Best New Book by a Former Chicago Golden Gloves Champ
The Old Neighborhood by Bill Hillmann
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2014
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Your summer reading: The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
Susan Jane Gilman's new novel is good company on long, stinky el rides.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Apr 23, 2014
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Impending death is not necessarily a negative development
In getting a new liver, I consider myself fortunate in one small respect in addition to the obvious big one.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Apr 15, 2014
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Family secrets fill Julia Glass's And the Dark Sacred Night
As a successor to the National Book Award-winning Three Junes, Glass's new novel is just good enough.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Apr 15, 2014
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The Book of Unknown Americans features a pair of powerhouse immigrant oral histories
Strangers in a strange land, legal immigrants and naturalized citizens face insecurity in Cristina Henríquez's new novel.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Apr 15, 2014
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The politics of fiction in O, Democracy!
Kathleen Rooney's debut novel is rooted in her disillusioning experience as an aide to a senator from Illinois.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Nov 13, 2013
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What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival 2013
Discussed: The ideal number of robots. The meaning of crows' sounds. The Jewish roots of Bambi. The utility of pigs. The evolution of fairy tales.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jun 6, 2013
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The Reader's guide to the Printers Row Lit Fest
Judy Blume, Art Spiegelman, D.T. Max, Haki Madhubuti, and more: Our critics pick favorites for the annual book blowout.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature May 30, 2013
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Susan Nussbaum's next act
The celebrated playwright and disability rights activist put down her pen for nearly a decade. But in a new novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, she picks back up where she left off, creating disabled characters who are funny, angry, and vividly human.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 7, 2013
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The art of disability on display at Bodies of Work
The festival puts people with disabilities on the stage, on the screen, behind the mike, and—just as importantly—in the audience.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 3, 2013
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The Books Issue: Violence
In which we explore works that confront violence in its many forms. Read together or on their own, what do these books have to tell us?
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Apr 3, 2013
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Who's to blame for violence against Native women?
In The Round House, Louise Erdrich settles for an easy target.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Apr 3, 2013
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From Averill to Zeus: A local lit roundup
Short takes on five new books
- Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Mar 7, 2013
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This week's Culture Vultures recommend:
The Dream of the Burning Boy, 7 Wonders, and Lauren Groff's Arcadia
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 14, 2006
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In defense of spoilers
Complaints about spoilers in movies and novels are a worrisome phenomenon.
- News & Politics, Feature Apr 2, 1998
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The Exceedingly Strange Case of the McCormick Sex Machine
Was the unfortunate heir as out-of-control as T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel suggests?
- News & Politics, Media Jan 10, 1991
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Sun-Times: The Novel/WFMT: The Parable