Arts & Humanities

Sept–Oct/12

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

Sept–Oct/12
In the summer of 1912 Poetry magazine, then a newborn upstart, asked writers to send their “best verse.”
Sept–Oct/12

How Homer’s ancient epic presaged the poetry slam.

08.27.2012

Second Fridays provide a fading oasis for UChicago arts seekers.

08.17.2012

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

08.13.2012

The UC Press Distribution Center guides its books from printing to pulping.
08.09.2012

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

Apr/1995

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

08.06.2012

An engineering postdoc and tae kwon do world champion puts another notch in her black belt.

08.03.2012

An in-depth report on University of Chicago students' grocery shopping habits.

08.01.2012

July’s Critical Mass draws body-image solidarity—and nipples.

07.27.2012

Chopin and Joplin aplenty at the 47th annual Rockefeller Carillon Festival.