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- City Life, Stay at Home May 25, 2020
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The Reader's stay-at-home chronicles: day 66
What we're reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- Blogs, Bleader May 8, 2018
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David Lean, FilmStruck’s Director of the Week, has more to offer than just Lawrence of Arabia
FilmStruck spotlights director David Lean, whose early Dickens adaptations and later epics shouldn't obscure his more intimate dramas from the 1950s.
- Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Apr 23, 2018
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Monument to fascist Balbo likely to remain, but aldermen could still rename street
A plaque explaining the controversial Italian aviator's legacy could be added to the lakefront memorial, officials said.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 18, 2018
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On winning wars and losing memories
Lee Sandlin's magnum opus on Americans' amnesia about World War II makes a Russian reflect on how differently we experienced the war.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 6, 2017
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George Takei on his childhood in Japanese internment camps, his career after imprisonment, and, ugh, Donald Trump
The actor, artist, and activist speaks in Chicago in connection with "Then They Came for Me," an art exhibit about Japanese internment during World War II.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jul 12, 2017
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Everyone in Chicago should see ‘Then They Came for Me’
A powerful art exhibit about Japanese-Americans and internment camps is also deeply relevant in the current historical moment.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2017
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Our Time Will Come is a subtle, moving study of Hong Kong’s WWII resistance movement
Ann Hui's historical drama pays tribute to the unsung heroes of political movements.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 28, 2017
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It Came From the Neo-Futurarium XII, In the Soundless Awe, and six more new stage shows
The Neo-Futurists' takes on camp classics and the evocation of a torpedoed WWII ship are among this week's best bets.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 24, 2017
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The message of Court Theatre’s Harvey? Don’t worry—be happy
Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1945 comedy was and remains a sweet break from the general awfulness.
- Blogs, Bleader May 4, 2017
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The still-shocking Seven Beauties dares to look for humor in the atrocities of World War II
Lina Wertmüller’s 1975 black comedy plays this weekend in Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 12, 2017
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The World Series-winning Cubs will be the last team Obama hosts in the White House, and other Chicago news
Also, the Department of Justice will reportedly release the findings of its Chicago police probe Friday.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 31, 2015
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The scurrilous cartoons of Dr. Seuss
Dr. Suess Goes to War reveals an ugly side of Theodor Seuss Dreisel.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 2, 2015
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The Man in the High Castle imagines a world ruled by Nazis
Amazon's latest original series tackles Philip K. Dick's novel, in which America lost World War II.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 23, 2015
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John Kass presents a 'universal law' of government and liberty
Big government is always bad—except for when it isn't.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 10, 2015
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In Rebecca Makkai's new story collection Music for Wartime, truth is stranger than fiction
The best and most haunting pieces here show the author wrestling with her complicated family legacy.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 6, 2015
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The American military not so smartly inspected in the Atlantic
James Fallows's January/February cover story on the American military could be a little more thoughtful.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Oct 27, 2014
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'Forbidden Art' reminded concentration camp prisoners they were human
A new exhibit at the Polish Museum of America features work created in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Ravensbrück.
- Film, Movie Review Sep 24, 2014
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In Level Five, a computer-game programmer tries to erase the history of Japanese atrocities
Experimental filmmaker Chris Marker revisits the bloody Battle of Okinawa.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 3, 2014
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Strawdog Theatre goes only partway to blazes with The Arsonists
The company's staging of Max Frisch's satire does many things well, just not enough of them.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Aug 27, 2014
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How a mysterious box of photos sent an Evanston couple halfway around the world
For a quarter century, Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller have been trying to figure out the identity of the photographer responsible for a treasure trove of images from 1940s India.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 9, 2014
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A Brigadoon for modern times
The Goodman Theatre's 21st-century revival retrieves a postwar classic from the misty past.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 5, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Sat 4/5: Railroad photography, The Vinegar Works, and Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, April 5
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 20, 2014
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Bike Winter Art Show, "Our Work: Modern Jobs—Ancient Origins," and the rest of your weekend in visual arts
Your guide to visual arts in the city this weekend
- Film, Movie Review Feb 19, 2014
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The Wind Rises: On a higher plane
Hayao Miyazaki's latest animation considers a man who saw the beauty in war.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 23, 2014
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"The Tyranny of Good Taste," "Strange Bedfellows," and the rest of your weekend in visual arts
What's happening in visual arts in the city this weekend
