Marking Nelson Algren’s 100th b-day, the Chicago Reader is running a-never-before-published short story by the famous writer, titled Entrapment, and featured on the cover of
In the past few weeks, several projects have arisen to photographically document the recession. Just today, for example, the New York Times launched Picturing the
In 1993, Dave Hickey published a sharply opinionated book on art called The Invisible Dragon. It was a small volume, but the response was outsized—and,
Ever since the U.S. military invaded Iraq in 2003, the nightly news has offered accounts of troops fighting a lethal and adaptive insurgency, where the
April is National Poetry Month and on the first day of celebration, we wanted to highlight some of the fine poetic offerings Chicago is publishing
Randall Mann’s Breakfast with Thom Gunn is a work both direct and unsettling. Haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929-2004), one of the most