In “Night Moves,” Jessica Hopper is 80% on her bike and 20% at a show, memorializing a young adulthood spent in just one of “a million Chicagos” — but one that shaped a wide network of artists and writers.
Chicago
Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Quotes, Uncategorized
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Was Born Today in 1862
Pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born July 16, 1862.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
How Lead Poisoned People of Color in East Chicago and Beyond
How lead contaminated the soil under East Chicago’s black and Latino communities.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
In a City Divided by Barbecue, Chicago’s South Side Style Gets Ignored
On Chicago’s Southside, there is a type of barbecue found nowhere else, and it’s too widely ignored.
Posted inBlog Post
In Silicon Valley, Transportation Innovation Is a Flat Circle
Tech wizards may say they want driverless cars or the hyperloop, but what they really, really want is a bus.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
The Biblical Rheology of Deep-Dish Pizza
A visit to Illinois—home to snow, slaughterhouse romance, and a fraught geology masquerading as pizza—courtesy of Matthew Gavin Frank’s brilliant new book.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
The Biblical Rheology of Deep-Dish Pizza
A visit to Illinois—home to snow, slaughterhouse romance, and a fraught geology masquerading as pizza—courtesy of Matthew Gavin Frank’s brilliant new book.
Posted inBooks, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story
This Is Living
How burdens and values pass from fathers to sons, and the search for that one true thing.
Posted inCollege, Nonfiction
Reimagining the Student Publication: Our College Pick
This week’s College Longreads selection is as much for the publication as it is for the story. Richie Siegel’s article about a Japanese street food restaurant in Chicago called Yoshu is mostly a profile of the owners, with a little bit of a restaurant review on the side. Siegel, a sophomore at NYU, is an […]
Posted inCollege, Nonfiction
Reimagining the Student Publication: Our College Pick
This week’s College Longreads selection is as much for the publication as it is for the story. Richie Siegel’s article about a Japanese street food restaurant in Chicago called Yoshu is mostly a profile of the owners, with a little bit of a restaurant review on the side. Siegel, a sophomore at NYU, is an […]