- 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.
- 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, Fiction, Jan 2, 2013
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Fiction Issue 2013
Four reader-submitted stories selected by guest curator Zach Dodson, of Featherproof Books
- Lit & Lectures, Fiction, Jan 2, 2013
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Fiction Issue 2013: “Isn’t that right, Pete?”
"He slipped or his perch gave way, and down he went. The father climbed down after him, but there was nothing that he or the Coast Guard could do."
- Lit & Lectures, Fiction, Jan 2, 2013
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Fiction Issue 2013: “LOS”
“When I look out the capsule window all I see is the moon. . . . If I landed where I was supposed to I would be able to see home.”
- Lit & Lectures, Fiction, Jan 2, 2013
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Fiction Issue 2013: "State Hospital"
"I’ve been making up answers to people's questions about my future. I’ve been showing my breasts to strangers on the Internet."
- Lit & Lectures, Fiction, Jan 2, 2013
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Fiction Issue 2013: "Conjuring Danny Squires"
"Sometimes, in the twisted wreckage of the car, I could just make out a clump of Danny’s blond hair. I could smell the gasoline."
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Dec 19, 2012
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People Issue 2012:
Michael Robbins, the poet"I have a real aversion to poetry readings, even when I'm reading at them."
- 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, Lit Sidebar, Oct 9, 2012
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Avoid the Saint Patrick's Day rush
IBAM offers an Irish experience without the green foil hats
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Sep 12, 2012
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Our five best bets for fall books
Ray Bradbury, Chris Ware, and Fran Lebowitz round out the page-turning season
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Sep 12, 2012
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One to watch this fall: Seminary Co-op Bookstore has outlived the superstore assault
Leaving behind the longtime digs graced by Saul Bellow and the president of the Dominican Republic
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Sep 5, 2012
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Blacks and blackface
Darkest America parses the queasy appeal of minstrelsy
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Aug 29, 2012
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A portrait of David Foster Wallace as a midwestern author
The first full biography of the late novelist fails to bring much subtlety to how the region influenced his art
- 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, Lit Sidebar, Aug 8, 2012
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Calling all fanboys, geeks, and cosplayers
The 2012 Chicago Comic Con is in session
- 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, Lit Sidebar, Jun 6, 2012
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Herding authors at the Printers Row Lit Fest
Two days and a couple square blocks of literacy
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