Two University of Chicago Press authors were honored last Tuesday at the Society of Midland Author’s annual awards ceremony. Roger Ebert’s Awake in the Dark:
"When a film is not a document, it is a dream. … At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame
Mike Royko, Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author, died ten years ago today—on April 29, 1997. Royko, a man whom Jimmy Breslin called “the best
It is widely known that acclaimed film critic and author Roger Ebert has been fighting a fierce battle with cancer ever since 2002. For four
The December 24 issue of the Denver Post ran a review by Stephen Rosen comparing and contrasting several of this year’s top titles in books
The reviews keep coming for From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner; a
Taking its inspiration from Ebert’s own critical methodology as set forth in his new book Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert, Tara
Robert Altman died yesterday at the age of 81. To mark his passing and his profound influence on contemporary film, we reprint Roger Ebert’s interview
In reviewing Roger Ebert’s new book Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert for the online magazine Blogcritics, blogger Nick Dirga poses the
No critic alive has reviewed more movies than Roger Ebert, and yet his essential writings have never been collected in a single volume—until now. With