Chicago

L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

Ed Simon on Grifters, the Chicago World Fair, and Oz as Symbol of a Modern USA

 
By Ed Simon  May 16, 2025
The Hub

Your week in book news, in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta  May 9, 2025
Underreported

Eve L. Ewing and pals are buying a Chicago bookstore.

By Brittany Allen  May 7, 2025
In Conversation

Elaine Equi on Blankness, Condensing Verse, and the Joy of Writing Short Poems

By Literary Hub  February 24, 2025
Travel

The coolest bookstore bars in America.

By Brittany Allen  August 16, 2024
Criminal Justice

Precarious Liminality: How Parole Keeps Ex-Prisoners Stranded Between Two Worlds

By Ben Austen  December 6, 2023
Criminal Justice

How a Lawyer of the Downtrodden Came To Represent Two Wealthy Killers

By Greg King and Penny Wilson  September 22, 2022
Interview with an Indie Press

Interview with an Indie Press: Agate Publishing

By Corinne Segal  September 9, 2022
Bookstores

Why a Bookstore’s Most Quiet Moments Are (Sometimes) Its Most Important

By Jeff Deutsch  April 13, 2022
I'm a Writer But

Christian Tebordo on Nabokov, the Liberation of Bad Reviews, and Knight Rider

By I'm a Writer But   March 17, 2022
Musicians

To Write a Revolution on the Sky: On the Radical Legacy of Curtis Mayfield

By Ayana Contreras  December 15, 2021
The Hub

Everything you need to know about the controversy over Obama’s presidential library.

By Walker Caplan  September 29, 2021
Family Histories

The Three Women of Bronzeville: On Finding Safety in My Mother, Grandmother, and Aunt

By Dawn Turner  September 10, 2021
Motherhood

Love Warriors: Women of Color Doulas in a Time of Crisis

By Jennifer C. Nash  August 20, 2021
Immigration

Aching for the American Dream: On Writing the Delicate Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students

By Elly Fishman  August 12, 2021
The Longest Year: 2020+

Resistance and Survival: Portraits of Black and Brown America, c. 2020

By Mitchell S. Jackson and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell  June 4, 2021
Bookstores

Toward a Definition of Contemporary Bookselling

By Alena Jones  April 7, 2021
Black Community

Saving and Preserving Black Community Spaces on the South Side of Chicago

By Tara Betts  April 6, 2021
Political Violence

Arthur Miller on the Surreal, Ideological Violence Underlying the 1968 Democratic Convention

By Arthur Miller  January 4, 2021
Immigration stories

Befriending My Neighbor, Nephew of Nazis

By Jaswinder Bolina  June 30, 2020
Gun violence

On Writing a Collective Poem in Response to Chicago Gun Violence

By Chris Green  June 16, 2020
Food

The Massive Chicago Operation to Save 800,000 People From Hunger

By Martín Caparrós  March 9, 2020
Police Violence

To Understand America’s Fear-Driven Response to Terrorism, Look to Chicago

By Laurence Ralph  February 6, 2020
Architecture

Paul Rudolph’s Strange Vision of a Cross-Manhattan Expressway (and Other Unfinished Projects)

By Robert Bruegmann  January 10, 2020
Literary Long Weekends

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Chicago

By Lynn Haller  December 10, 2019
Musicians

On the Groundbreaking Documentary That Brought the Birthplace of Chicago Blues Alive

By David Dann  October 16, 2019
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