On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...
From the iconic and literary to the nostalgic and silly, these are the favorite first lines of the Michigan Daily Book Review ...
The Mike White touch: When Piper argues to Tim that he and Victoria did not really raise their children to be religious, Tim ...
I’ve come to realize that when we lose the ability to communicate fully in words, the other ways we connect—through actions, ...
In the Ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey,” Odysseus’ men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens’ ...
In an intriguing interview with Joachim Froment we discuss his journey in furniture design, his inspirations, and passion.
The artist was a fixture in the neighborhood for more than a decade, known for her risqué paintings — "the embodiment of this extremely important, extremely central Chicago archetypical artist," one ...
One morning in January, I met the musician Lucy Dacus at the Cloisters, the medieval-art museum at the northwestern tip of ...
Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...
A forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.
Love is not exclusive to lovers. It's for anyone and everyone. If it were not there would be no ministers or priests to preach. No Mother Theresa or teachers to teach. No one looking up at the moon ...
The Western Mass.-based author goes beyond his popular Instagram wisdom with a new book of essays, poetry, and tools for ...