The festival takes place over two days this weekend, with free programming hosted at American Writers Museum and Harold Washington Library Center. AWM president Carey Cranston discusses their plans wi...

Going into the 2026 season, affordability and accessibility are top of mind for markets.

I am so thrilled to be running this interview today.

The Rockford native on her debut novel, choosing curiosity over judgment and balancing writing with her caseworker job.

The Chicago-based artist, who just won the Walker Youngbird Foundation award for emerging Native American artists, discusses her artmaking process and taking inspiration from the Loop's architecture.

If the pen is ubiquitous as a writer’s tool, and claims to be “mightier than the sword,” so, too, should we champion the chair; perhaps it desires to pipe up and say, “Hey, but where are you sitting w...

What role does fiction play in understanding systemic abuses of power and oppression? That’s a question Grace Spulak and I have wrestled with for years. We’re both fiction writers with a background…

At the end of Miami and the Siege of Chicago, Norman Mailer’s 1968 New Journalism account of that year’s Democratic and Republican National Conventions and the accompanying violence between Yippies an...

Debbie Millman and I are thrilled to share some exciting new initiatives we are launching with The Rumpus. Beginning on April 1, 2026, we are increasing

If ever there were a character who could benefit by reading Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People—straight through, ASAP—it’s Rose Cutler, the dyspeptic protagonist of Sara Levine’s ...

Contemporary readers can relate to Vitangelo, as social media seems designed to focus on what others think of us.

My neighborhood in Chicago has a delightfully high density of Little Free Libraries. Inside one of these late last year, I stumbled upon a reissue of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence P...

The Chicago-based writer discusses the pleasures of editing, writing in English versus French and the narrative power of anxiety.

Here are the 12 books you need to read this January 2026.

By Ruby Rosenthal

By Ruby Rosenthal

The Chicago-based philanthropic organization United States Artists has announced its latest fellowships, awarding $50,000 to 50 artists in 10 disciplines, including three artists local to Chicago.

Here are the 12 books you need to read this January 2026.

A letter from Editor-In-Chief Michael Welch on the Chicago Review of Book's 10 year anniversary.