Tuesday Funk June 2, 7 p.m.Hopleaf5148 North Clark StreetFree The monthly reading series brings fiction, poetry, essays, and other works, in all genres, read live by the authors. This evening’s […]
In front of a rapt audience, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s great nieces appeared at the Chicago Humanities Festival’s Northwestern Day on Sunday, to talk about their new book Casa Kahlo: […]
American Writers Museum and Chicago Public Library Announce Full Schedule for American Writers Festival June 6, 10 am–5 p.m. (American Writers Museum, 180 N Michigan Ave, 2nd Floor)June 7, 10 […]
Rick Steves was in the spotlight this week for the Spring Chicago Humanities Festival. Steves is a travel virtuoso, activist, and humanitarian. He is known for his travel series, seen […]
Here are a handful of literary events happening this month in Chicago and beyond. No fooling. Reading to Support the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights April 3, 2026, […]
With the opening of Robert Weinberg’s poem—“On North Broadway/Middle aged women roll their pushcarts into Rexalls”—you know you’re not in Kansas any more. Instead, you’re back nearly 40 years to a […]
Memoir and Narrative Storytelling During COVID The Society of Midland Authors presents a panel discussion titled “Memoir and Narrative Storytelling During COVID” with writers Michele Weldon, Gerry Plecki, and Rebecca […]
Third Coast Review writer Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch is stepping away from writing the Chicago Is Lit column, though she will continue to contribute to TCR. In the meantime, Lit editor […]
“There are many ways to do the work in this moment,” Women & Children First Co-Owner Lynn Mooney said by way of introducing prolific novelist and poet Margaret Atwood at […]
Even before its release, Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine is something of a success. Rarely does a new arts and literary journal receive more than 300 submissions for its first call. […]
Sometimes the biggest things go unnoticed. The Uptown Theatre, for example. For a full century it’s stood at 4816 North Broadway, always there but overlooked by passersby since it closed […]
He wore a black patch over his right eye while the other eye, the good eye, looked out towards the standing room only audience. Salman Rushdie wasted no time in […]