Friday, August 12, 2022
It’s a small story whose roots and branches radiate in all directions.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:45PMMonday, August 8, 2022
Wolfgang Amadeus Aleksandr “Aleks” Fa has a lot of baggage. The protagonist of Joe Meno’s new novel Book of Extraordinary Tragedies has that name, after all—which also serves as a cl…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:06PMFriday, August 5, 2022
Filmmaker Danny Cohen gave Barnett a Dictaphone and asked her to talk into it as she traversed the world on tours over three years, in support of her celebrated second album in 2018, and onw…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:50PMTuesday, July 26, 2022
A novelist, writing professor, and covert comedian named Solomon Gladman wakes up one morning in Chicago, sometime in 2022. He and his French-born wife, Daphne Bourbon (would she be named Si…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:01PMTuesday, July 19, 2022
Despite all the beautiful water, sun, and half-naked bodies, what I was left with as the credits rolled was a mere trace memory of stylish vacuity.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:30AMFriday, July 8, 2022
“Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink,” Coleridge’s sailor complains in the famous 1798 poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The mariner is talking about the plight on…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 06:58PMThursday, July 7, 2022
With over a hundred years of the moving image at their disposal, these creative people appear at a loss how to proceed. It’s a very familiar feeling.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:37PMFriday, July 1, 2022
This is a skillful but flawed portrait of amateur sports on the global stage that doesn’t quite stick the landing.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:11PMFriday, June 24, 2022
“My dear boy, why don’t you try acting?” Laurence Olivier’s quippy response to Dustin Hoffman’s story of how he stayed up three nights to fully inhabit the sleepless state of his c…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:19PMThursday, June 23, 2022
“Cézanne, he’s the greatest of us all.”—Claude Monet to Georges Clemenceau in conversation, cited in translation in The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné (trans. Joh…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:52PMThursday, June 16, 2022
Charles has a mannequin head, rubber gloves for hands, and a washing-machine torso. But the rest of him is quite obviously human. His hodgepodge construction neatly describes the disjointedn…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:56AMWednesday, June 15, 2022
Nealshow Productions premieres Pat Radke’s and Dave Satterwhite’s malaprop-fueled road-trip comedy. Candyce (Lee Satterwhite), in WWI helmet and goggles, is at the wheel of a middle-scho…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:50AMFriday, June 10, 2022
In a time when the most banal information is up for debate, this fake documentary reads as much too real.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:12PMThursday, May 26, 2022
Being the son of the great Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi and the protege of the late master director Abbas Kiarostami can’t help but cast a shadow, but if this digressive and sl…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMUnfortunately, what Juergens presents onscreen comes across more like a loose scrapbook or vlog than a film.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMWednesday, May 25, 2022
Margaret Knapp directs the world premiere of Martha Hansen’s first play (presented by Light and Sound Productions) about five women on an Alaskan cruise—each hoping to sight something ot…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:57PMSteve Scott directs a storefront production of Shakespeare’s wallow into the nature of unadorned power-lust and demagoguery. With a minimal set—a couple benches, steps with a recess to i…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:46PMThursday, May 12, 2022
A wooden rowboat and plastic sheets lining two back walls are the only decorations for Sarah Tolan-Mee’s English-language adaptation of Heiner Müller’s 1982 cry-of-anguish riff on war, …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMTuesday, June 29, 2021
A new exhibition at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art surveys over 60 years of cartoonists.
Does a comic strip belong on a museum wall? I ask this not to qu…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 08:00AMMonday, June 21, 2021
A former cabbie talks to writer Reginald Edmund about Ride Share at Writers Theatre—and the real-life experiences that inspired it.
Being a public driver has n…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMTuesday, June 15, 2021
Mount Prospect’s Mallory Smart, who publishes the online journal Maudlin House, has a new book coming out from Trident Press this year.
“Lit!” is what writ…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00AMTuesday, May 18, 2021
The author takes a deep dive into the culture of the lifestyle and his personal connection to it.
What do you think of when you hear the word skateboarding? A ki…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:10PMWednesday, April 14, 2021
Even though its titular character always does just the opposite
Meiselman is put-upon. Everything and everyone in his world is bent on humiliating and belittling…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:35PMTuesday, March 30, 2021
An excerpt from Dmitry Samarov’s Old Style, an illustrated book set in Chicago bars
I pay the guy no mind the first couple times he comes up. Young, kind of co…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:40PMTuesday, February 9, 2021
In her book Faux Pas, the painter makes a rarified field approachable with humor and profundity.
“You take a picture, but you make a drawing.” I’ve tried f…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 11:50AMFriday, January 22, 2021
Stand-up comedian Sam Tallent’s hilarious novel follows a dumpster fire of a man looking for redemption.
Is a monster still a monster if it knows it’s a mons…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:45PMMonday, January 18, 2021
Empty bookshelves aren’t a bad thing.
No one has ever used the words joy or spark to describe me and I haven't read Marie Kondo's book or seen her TV show. Yet…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:15PMTuesday, January 5, 2021
Poet Damian Rogers explores her relationship with her mother in her new memoir.
Do you know your mother? I don't mean her identity but who she is as a person.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:50PMMonday, November 2, 2020
In his debut novel, Pete Beatty fashions historical fantasy that feels contemporary.
Ours is a time ripe for tall tales. So Pete Beatty’s yarn about two brothe…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:35PMTuesday, October 6, 2020
Wendy Woloson’s book dives deep into America’s obsession with cheap stuff.
Crap is a fun and easy word to say. But what crap is is a lot harder to pin down.�…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:40PMFriday, August 14, 2020
What it’s like to explore a familiar place under unfamiliar circumstances.
When it was announced the Art Institute of Chicago was reopening I swore I wouldn't …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:45PM 
