- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 14, 2009
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"Bertram Cope's Year": Chicago's forgotten gay masterpiece
- 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, 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, Apr 3, 2013
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Gun Guys: Not quite lock, stock, and barrel
Dan Baum's latest could use more guys, less Baum.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Mar 25, 2013
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Mad Men, Mad World looks at the 60s through smoke-colored glasses
In a new collection, Mad Men gets the academic treatment.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, May 11, 2006
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A Children's Book for Adults
Tony Millionaire's scary, magical new graphic novel
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 16, 2006
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A Daydream Nation
Greil Marcus is nostalgic for an America that was never more than a fantasy.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 2, 2006
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A Self-Important Prick
An exercise in writing to repel from PhD Joseph Suglia
- News & Features, Media, Jul 9, 2009
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A Short Story in the Palm of Your Hand
Punk Planet’s Dan Sinker believes you really do want to read on your phone.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Aug 31, 2006
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A Tour of Duty in a Crooked Fingers Tee
Two friends from the east-coast punk scene went to Iraq for adventure and came back with knowledge.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 9, 2006
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A True Crime
How a rape victim wound up being treated like a criminal
- 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, Jul 12, 2001
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After the Cure
Anna O. is famous as the first person to benefit from psychoanalysis, but the fascinations of her life don't stop there.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Sep 2, 2004
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Agendas Ahoy
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Mar 15, 2013
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Aleksandar Hemon writes the story of his lives
Sarajevo and Chicago are the poles at each end of Hemon's new collection, The Book of My Lives.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 2, 2006
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Alice in Genderland
As a woman, Alice Sheldon was a frustrated debutante. As James Tiptree Jr., she revolutionized science fiction.
- 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, Jan 26, 2006
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All in the Family
Three new novels grapple with domestic dysfunction.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jan 18, 2007
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Alternative to What?
In his memoir about trying to be a cool dad, Neal Pollack reveals that he's just like every other parent.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Dec 1, 2005
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America After Dark
If you want to understand racism in this country, you need to look at the places black people don't live.
