Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago
While there isn’t an individual essay for each film that Stanwyck ever starred in, Catherine Russell is able to cover a wide index of Stanwyck’s film and television work.
Hunter College urban policy and planning professor Nicholas Dagen Bloom argues that the transit deserts in much of the United States were not inevitable—but caused by a lack of funding to sustain high-quality service, the encouragement of auto-centric planning, and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs.
Arianne Shahvisi’s book serves as a primer for those searching for the better arguments when it comes to countering right-wing moral panic and rabid anti-wokeness.
May brings stellar writers with brilliant new books, festivals, and a debut novel from Tom Hanks.
What if you composed a nonfiction book from a few hundred individually numbered notes, some as short as a line, others several pages long? Some notes are comments or quotations. Others tell a fully realized anecdote.
Estée Lauder’s story is familiar to many, a New York woman born just after the turn of the twentieth century who revolutionized the cosmetics industry as one of America’s most successful businesspeople.
In “Occupation: Organizer,” scholar and activist Clément Petitjean outlines the history of community organizing in Chicago from the city’s “professional radical” Saul Alinsky in the 1900s to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2004.
Gordon sheds welcome light on Ursula Parrott, a remarkable and troubled writer, who knew too well how hard it was to be a modern woman who wanted sexual freedom and a career of her own choosing.
This funny, timely novel starts with the most embarrassing night of a woman’s life.
Camus made two trips to the Americas in the 1940s. The first was to the United States and Canada in 1946, the second to Brazil and other parts of South America in 1949. In both cases he traveled as a cultural emissary for France.
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