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Zero Zero Day
Excerpted from Chicago Noir, a new collection of short stories edited by Neal Pollack
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From MLK to Jay-Z
An attempt at understanding contemporary black male identity
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On the Records
Two rock writers wade neck-deep into a favorite album.
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Their Job Is Murder
Kevin Davis takes a book-length look at the homicide specialists in the Cook County Public Defender's Office.
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Alison Bechdel remembers Mama
The cartoonist looks at her first troubled relationship in Are You My Mother?
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The Belle of Blackhawk Island
These Parts--The little known poetry of Lorine Niedecker illuminates life in Wisconsin's lake country and the mind of a gifted woman.
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The Bounce Remains the Same
Nik Cohn tried to influence New Orleans rap but all he got was this lousy nickname.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Oct 18, 2007
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Both Sides of the Border
Mexican immigration isn't just transforming the U.S.--it's also transforming Mexico.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jan 21, 2013
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These lightweights can't take a punch
In Zak Mucha's Heavyweight Champion of Nothing, a dead-end furniture-moving crew turns to petty crime—with dead-end results.
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Agendas Ahoy
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Divided We Live
Alexander Polikoff's memoir about his landmark public-housing case shows just how complex simple justice can be.
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Girl, You'll Meet a Creature Soon
Sexual initiation lurks just below the surface in Lilli Carré's The Lagoon.
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The Pack Rat Poet
Albert Goldbarth's poetry teems with images from pop culture, history, literature, his Chicago childhood, and more.
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Feminist, Examine Thyself
In her forthcoming book The Female Thing, lefty critic Laura Kipnis suggests that feminism look inward to explain its failures.
