- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jan 8, 2013
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They took the blue pill
Addiction resembles immortality—or is it the other way around?—in Kathryn Born’s dystopian new novel, The Blue Kind.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Dec 10, 2012
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How FDR won the war of public perception
Michele Landis Dauber's The Sympathetic State details the selling of the New Deal
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Oct 23, 2012
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Carl Regehr: The Lost Journals—a fecund mind at work
The Society of Typographic Arts celebrates 85 years with a 154-page volume of the graphic designer's work
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Sep 5, 2012
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Blacks and blackface
Darkest America parses the queasy appeal of minstrelsy
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Aug 14, 2012
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Spare them our good intentions
Richard Huzzey's Freedom Burning argues that abolitionism fed imperialism
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jul 31, 2012
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His life in the theater
With Confessions of a Transylvanian, Chicago actor Kevin Theis does the “Time Warp” again
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jun 26, 2012
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Joe Meno's inappropriate answer to the Hollywood rom-com
The Chicago author reads from Office Girl at the Book Cellar
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, May 22, 2012
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Alison Bechdel remembers Mama
The cartoonist looks at her first troubled relationship in Are You My Mother?
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Apr 27, 2012
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'52' equals zero
DC Entertainment's new line of superhero comics is more of the same nothing
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Mar 7, 2012
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Adam Levin's strange new short stories
Deep in the land of quirk with a legless lesbian genius and old Jews discussing cunnilingus
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Feb 29, 2012
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No Place, U.S.A.
While trying to establish a regional identity, Midwestern Gothic loses itself in time
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 3, 2011
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What do women think men think about sex?
Two new anthologies, Men Undressed and Windy City Queer, explore the mysteries of various organisms
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Aug 25, 2011
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Anders Nilsen's Big Questions
Anders Nilsen's massive new comics collection sweats the big stuff
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Aug 4, 2011
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Doing K to 12
In Lockdown High, public school is a prison prep academy
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Jun 30, 2011
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James O'Shea narrates the Tribune Company's epic collapse
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, May 26, 2011
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In The Chronology of Water, words get memoirist Lidia Yuknavitch through a riptide life.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Apr 21, 2011
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Spring Books Review
Short takes on six new releases
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Apr 14, 2011
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The Lives He's Leading
At 91, sci-fi master Frederik Pohl comes out with a dystopian new novel, All the Lives He Led
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jan 13, 2011
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Women in Love
Christine Sneed's collection never gets chick-litty about romance.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 4, 2010
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Fall Books: Short Takes
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