Violinist and teacher Joel Smirnoff searches for culture in music.

The pitfalls of writing, from a junior thesis to a Star Trek history.

Onward and upward with the arts: a glimpse into the inner workings of the towering new facility south of the Midway.

A Smart Museum talk explores the deft precision and symbolic significance of Korean art.

A sprawling, self-published debut novel has a happy ending for the author and the press.

How Homer’s ancient epic presaged the poetry slam.

Second Fridays provide a fading oasis for UChicago arts seekers.

The seventh annual Chicago Sister Cities Festival brings international sights, sounds, and tastes to Daley Plaza.

The UC Press Distribution Center guides its books from printing to pulping.

Notes on a UChicago film class, Curiosity’s landing, and George Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon.

A bookcase full of potboilers, mysteries, satires—and even some great books—have the same backdrop: the University of Chicago.