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Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2014
Mayor Rahm's favorite books

Did the mayor actually read any of the books on his publicized list of favorite books?
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, News, Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, reading. books, Chicago Public Library, Taylor Branch, Robert Caro, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Underworld, Zealot, Fox TV, Bolivar, Godfather, Catcher in the Rye, Jaws, Don DeLillo, Reza Aslan, Persepolis, Michael Connelly, Harry Bosch

Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2013
Cosmopolis and the incredible shrinking theater

Is David Cronenberg's latest a different movie on DVD than it is in the cinema?
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Transportation, Moviegoing, Film, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo, Robert Pattinson, Doc Films, Ida Noyes Hall, DVD, moviegoing, mise-en-scene, stretch limo

Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Thu 10/18

What's on the Agenda for Thursday, October 18, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Converge, All We Love We Leave Behind, Kevin Warwick, Metro, Wrigleyville, Torche, Kvelertak, Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda, Story Prize, PEN/FaulkNer Award for Fiction, Saki's, Logan Square, Joe McAdams, IMBG: The International Movie Betting Game, Chad Briggs, Bill Cruz

Blogs, Bleader Sep 27, 2012
Two things about Don DeLillo

One is a free upcoming Chicago appearance
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Books, Do This, Don DeLillo, Carl Sandburg, Walter Isaacson, Scott Simon, Donna Seaman, Bill Murray, New York, Jada Yuan

Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2012
Cosmopolis and other talking books

Thinking about movies where everyone speaks the same way in light of David Cronenberg's faithful Don DeLillo adaptation
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Books, Film, Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, literary adaptations, Manoel de Oliveira, Film Comment, Doomed Love, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ben Hecht, Hal Hartley, Philip Haas, Paul Auster, The Music of Chance, Angels Over Broadway

Blogs, Bleader Aug 24, 2012
Video
The boy who wasn't there, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Bart Layton, The Imposter, Chicken With Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo, Robert Pattinson, The Expendables 2, Sylvester Stallone, Hit and Run movie, Dax Shepard, Patang movie, Prashant Bhargava, Premium Rush movie, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Robot & Frank, Frank Langella, Black Harvest Film Festiva, Gene Siskel Film Center, Brooklyn Castle, Father's Day, White Scripts and Black Supermen, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Music Box, Arthur Penn, The Chase movie, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Noel, Pretty Poison, Greg Mottola, Superbad, University of Chicago Doc Films, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Landmark's Century Centre, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 3, 2012
Now online: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (part 1)

The first of a three-part series on Adam Curtis's essay-film All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Adam Curtis, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, Information Age, Internet, Love and Power, Bill Clinton, Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Jean-Luc Godard, Century of the Self, Power of Nightmares, Leonard Cohen, Monica Lewinsky, Loren Carpenter, New Economy, Peter Watkins, The War Game

Blogs, Bleader Jun 8, 2009
Put it on your radar

The great literary magazine Granta plans an issue about our city.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Don DeLillo, Aleksandar Hemon, Granta, Hisham Matar

Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2008
Less than zero

Looking for movies in all the wrong places--but sometimes they're the right places too!
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Veit Harlan, Alphaville, Zeroville, Steve Erickson, Don DeLillo, Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Names, Archimedes, Now, Voyager, Red River, The Searchers, John Milius, George Stevens, A Place in the Sun, Stephen Graham Jones, Demon Theory, Wes Craven, Arthur O. Lovejoy, Marina de Van, In My Skin, Great chain of being, Lemmy Caution

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Mayor Rahm's favorite books

Did the mayor actually read any of the books on his publicized list of favorite books?

Cosmopolis and the incredible shrinking theater

Is David Cronenberg's latest a different movie on DVD than it is in the cinema?

The Reader's Agenda: Thu 10/18

What's on the Agenda for Thursday, October 18, 2012

Two things about Don DeLillo

One is a free upcoming Chicago appearance

Cosmopolis and other talking books

Thinking about movies where everyone speaks the same way in light of David Cronenberg's faithful Don DeLillo adaptation

Video
The boy who wasn't there, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Now online: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (part 1)

The first of a three-part series on Adam Curtis's essay-film All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.

Put it on your radar

The great literary magazine Granta plans an issue about our city.

Less than zero

Looking for movies in all the wrong places--but sometimes they're the right places too!

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Did the mayor actually read any of the books on his publicized list of favorite books?

Is David Cronenberg's latest a different movie on DVD than it is in the cinema?

What's on the Agenda for Thursday, October 18, 2012

One is a free upcoming Chicago appearance

Thinking about movies where everyone speaks the same way in light of David Cronenberg's faithful Don DeLillo adaptation

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The first of a three-part series on Adam Curtis's essay-film All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.

The great literary magazine Granta plans an issue about our city.

Looking for movies in all the wrong places--but sometimes they're the right places too!

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