Things in Minneapolis keep getting worse and if you ask me, there is little difference now between ICE and the guards in Tehran. But we can't hide in the closet now.

"I’ve written a hundred course descriptions in my career, but over the past few months these paragraphs feel new and charged and vital. What does it mean to write in this time? To write of this time?…

I arrived late to my first Chicago Review of Books Awards in 2019. I was a new editor on the team then, nervous and uncertain about how early to arrive for the ceremony and lost between the awfully na...

A list of Patricia Smith’s achievements in poetry could take up much of this interview. A poet, playwright, essayist, educator and mentor, she’s deservedly won nearly every accolade and award, includi...

Let's make a list, shall we. Once connections are apparent and we can look back and notice--really notice--what truly matters will be revealed.

A WGN video producer was handcuffed and taken into custody by federal agents on Friday morning while documenting the arrest of a Latino man, and one legal analyst warned the move defied a court order. Debbie Brockman was shown face down on the pavement with her pants pulled down. Chicago local Josh ...

Federal agents have fired chemical agents at protesters outside the Broadview, Illinois, ICE processing facility and taken at least two people into custody.

This four-week online course, intended for intermediate to advanced fiction writers who are seeking their first publications, focuses on that last ten percent of short story writing: revision and subm...

And why we all need to be out there using our protesting power

How do we write compellingly yet responsibly about social issues? How do we write about the world as we’d like it to be without coming across as Pollyanna or propaganda? We will investigate these…