"Audiences in the Midwest allow you to be yourself. In New York, you’ve got to fight for recognition. The Midwest is just kind of 'Let’s see what you got.'" Read more
Break out the hammock and relax with a book about the craft beer revolution, Rebecca Makkai's Boystown novel, Kim Brooks's non-fiction examination of parenthood and fear in America, and more. Read more
In the summer, Chicago’s beaches and waterfront parks become the city’s melting pot, its great leveler, a 26-mile-long stage for thousands of intimate vignettes. Over a single weekend, photographer Lenny Gilmore immortalized 15 of them. Read more
