Adults looking for something to read during the American Library Association’s Teen Read Week October 12 to 18 should look no further than Seth Lerer’s
In the second episode of the Chicago Audio Works podcast we feature an interview with Jan Van Meter, author of Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous
Now that his Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street is out, UCP author and Washington University professor Patrick Burke
The New York Times reported today that French police discovered toxic mercury pellets in the car of human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko, one day before
The University of Chicago Press held its first public book sale in 26 years on October 7 and 8 at International House in Hyde Park.
In the appropriately titled Mean, Colette LaBouff Atkinson’s speakers confront a series of cruel lovers, estranged ex-husbands and ex-ex-wives, neglectful parents, disrespectful children, menacing drunks,
Last week, before the Swedish Academy awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Academy secretary Horace Engdahl caused a bit
Since its publication in 1976, Norman Maclean’s novella A River Runs Through It has become an American classic, earning him comparison to the likes of
Like many political observers, we noticed a troubling change in the tenor of the campaign last week: angry (and ill-informed) crowds at rallies, a passionately
The Nobel prize in economics (or to be exact, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel), like most of the
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