Slavic studies professor Malynne Sternstein guides students through the deep game that is Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita.

Visiting novelist Gamal Al Ghitany discusses the state of creativity in Egypt.

Adam Levin, AM’01, gives a “hot” reading to a hometown crowd.

Tweeting Orson Welles’s famous radio drama on its 75th anniversary.

Artist Robert Crumb’s jazz trading cards highlight the famous and the forgotten.

At a memorial service for Bernard Sahlins, friends and family recalled the Second City cofounder’s passion for his work, which in recent years included directing staged readings of verse plays for the Poetry Foundation.

As daylight dwindles, cut out paper-bag luminarias inspired by windows on campus to light your way home this winter.

A traveling exhibition explores California art’s experimental state of mind.

The Neubauer Collegium sets sail with two talks and a visit by artist William Kentridge.

UChicago creative writers offer a few words about reading.

Visual arts professors—all working artists—offer glimpses of work in progress.

A young curator embraces the strange and quirky in Renaissance art.