Having Trouble Sleeping? Try Reading Kevin Huizenga’s Graphic Novel About Having Trouble Sleeping
In The River at Night, a man’s nighttime recollections unspool into his life story.
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How Claire Lombardo Wrote the Midwestern Big Little Lies
The Oak Park native showcases a promising talent with her debut novel, The Most Fun We Ever Had.
A Very Chicago Summer Reading List
Adam Morgan picks eight titles for your beach tote.
Summer reading: Works in translation
"Human Matter" by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, translated from Spanish by Eduardo Aparicio, University of Texas, 192 pages, $19.95, June 18 Fourteen summers ago, a series of explosions in Guatemala City...
A New Book Festival Is Coming to Bridgeport
It's run by two of Chicago's most esteemed booksellers, and it debuts this weekend.
Rebecca Makkai Will Change the Way You See Boystown
The author of The Great Believers on the AIDS epidemic and Chicago’s “Lost Generation.”
Catherine Lacey’s new story collection delivers perfect sentences, devastating epiphanies
In the 19th century, newspapers warned of a mysterious illness afflicting the first settlers of the American Midwest. They called it “prairie madness” — a psychological response to the region’s...
The Chicago Poetry Block Party Is a Can't-Miss Literary Event
Poets Nate Marshall and Eve Ewing tease details of the bash, happening Saturday in Austin.
10 New Books for Your Summer Reading List
Break out the hammock and relax with a book about the craft beer revolution, Rebecca Makkai's Boystown novel, Kim Brooks's non-fiction examination of parenthood and fear in America, and more.
Meet Chicago’s First National Youth Poet Laureate
"I cried," says the Columbia College sophomore. "And then I gave a really bad speech."