The Reading List: Big Fall Novels
New books from Jonathan Franzen, Nnedi Okorafor, and Dave Eggers to bookmark this autumn.
New books from Jonathan Franzen, Nnedi Okorafor, and Dave Eggers to bookmark this autumn.
Attendees and performers alike are gracing this year’s music festival with bold, colorful, and classic trends.
Two related exhibitions unspool a remarkable history of innovative cartooning
Over the next year, venues across the city will exhibit art by 29 recipients of the MacArthur Foundation’s ballyhooed grants, with 12 shows happening this summer.
The Netflix adaptation (and August Wilson’s original play) track Rainey’s abuse at the hands of a white recording industry. But there was also a go-between: J. Mayo Williams, a Chicago talent scout and Paramount’s first Black A&R rep.
A puppet-filled play about a child navigating the COVID pandemic kicks off an initiative by Chicago Children’s Theatre to commission work from diverse writers.
All about the Boy Band Night, Chicago’s newly famous BSB cover band