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, Nov 3, 2011
What do women think men think about sex?
Two new anthologies,
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, Aug 25, 2011
Anders Nilsen's Big Questions
Anders Nilsen's massive new comics collection sweats the big stuff
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Doing K to 12
In Lockdown High, public school is a prison prep academy
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, Jun 30, 2011
James O'Shea narrates the Tribune Company's epic collapse
by Michael Miner
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, May 26, 2011
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The Chronology of Water
, words get memoirist Lidia Yuknavitch through a riptide life.
by Alison Barker
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, Apr 21, 2011
Spring Books Review
Short takes on six new releases
by Jerome Ludwig, Kate Schmidt, Sam Worley, Kathie Bergquist, Julia Thiel, and Steve Bogira
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, Apr 14, 2011
The Lives He's Leading
At 91, sci-fi master Frederik Pohl comes out with a dystopian new novel,
All the Lives He Led
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, Jan 13, 2011
Women in Love
Christine Sneed's collection never gets chick-litty about romance.
by Robert Duffer
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, Nov 4, 2010
Fall Books: Short Takes
More new Chicago-related books
by Noah Berlatsky, Lauri Apple, Jerome Ludwig, John V. Santore, and Pat J. Daily
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, Oct 14, 2010
Exit Sandman
There's not much for Neil Gaiman's fans in the best-of anthology he edited.
by Noah Berlatsky
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, Aug 26, 2010
Books Good!
Or: How to simultaneously condescend to the masses and sneer at the elitists.
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, Jul 8, 2010
When Know-It-Alls Don't
It's not just biblical knowledge that’s faith-based.
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, Apr 22, 2010
Local Lit
From authors with a Chicago connection: a backpacker thriller, taking license with Louisa May Alcott, and more
by Julia Thiel, Sam Adams, Kate Schmidt, Jerome Ludwig, S.L. Wisenberg, Noah Berlatsky, Patrick Daily, Mick Dumke, and Martha Bayne
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, Apr 8, 2010
It's About Class
How "school reform" helps maintain the status quo
by Noah Berlatsky
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, Jan 21, 2010
The Chicken or the Bomb
Which came first: presidential powermongering or its ultimate rationale?
by Noah Berlatsky
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, Dec 17, 2009
Serious Funnies
A heavy-handed curator takes on war cartoons; a cartoonist takes a light touch with history.
by Noah Berlatsky
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, Nov 5, 2009
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Animals and Objects In and Out of Water: Posters by Jay Ryan 2005-2008
Jay Ryan | Akashic Books
by paul john higgins
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, Nov 5, 2009
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Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker
James McManus | Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Kathie Bergquist
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, Nov 5, 2009
Fall Books Special
Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969
Andrew J. Diamond | University of California Press
by Mick Dumke
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, Nov 5, 2009
Fall Books Special
My Father's Bonus March
Adam Langer | Spiegel & Grau
by Jerome Ludwig
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