Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago
In Thurman’s essays, each of her subjects could be described as left-handed, at least in a figurative sense. Of the thirty-nine essays that make up the collection, the vast majority concern women.
Joseph G. Peterson masterfully weaves the restless meanderings of the mind of a solitary traveler yearning for connection and home and validation for his life choices with the shabbiness and inescapable yet temporary community of an airport setting.
While you’re supporting independent bookstores with all of your holiday shopping, take an hour or two to give your brain a gift with one of December’s thought-provoking events.
Flautist, composer and Black Earth Ensemble founder Nicole Mitchell Gantt’s “The Mandorla Letters” reads like a guidebook to an imagined world.
A book about the area we now call Yosemite National Park as seen primarily through the eyes of the nineteenth century.
It’s a practical profession learned on the job, and each production is its own unique experience.
“Our Red Book” explores the menstruation experience, and she weaves together essays, oral histories, and artworks to explore an experience that is still not often discussed.
You won’t look at the comforts of home or your family or your pets or our contemporary world the same way after reading “Lark Ascending.” And I mean this as the highest compliment I can bestow on a story.
Chicago writer Szilágyi’s “Dreams Under Glass” is a sensitive and unsettling look at young adulthood and the dichotomies between art, money and greed.
The ingenious sense of wordplay that characterizes the Minnesota bard’s best work as a songwriter is everywhere in evidence in this substantial, but wild 334-page work of creative non-fiction.
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