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Michelle Esbensen browses for books in the horror section at Unabridged Books in Chicago on Sept. 26, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Poking around the scary, horrible, disgusting, excellent cauldron of new horror lit

October 2, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

Horror lit is in an unprecedented renaissance right now, driven by a diverse crop of new writers, robust horror sections in bookstores and the spread of horror-only book clubs. But...

Domhnall Gleeson (standing) as Ned, the new editor in chief on "The Paper." (Aaron Epstein/Peacock)

Column: You think your office is a sitcom? I worked at Toledo’s Blade newspaper, a loose inspiration for ‘The Paper’

September 25, 2025 at 5:43 p.m.

The new Peacock sitcom set at a Toledo newspaper is by the creators of “The Office.” Some real newspaper staffers in that Ohio city threw a little watch party in...

Abby Pucker oversees installations for her Chicago Exhibition Weekend, now in its fourth year, Sept. 16, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

The rise, and rise, of Abby Pucker, Chicago’s hot art world booster — and Pritzker family member

September 19, 2025 at 9:26 p.m.

Chicago Exhibition Weekend opens Friday at galleries all over town, with a 33-year-old dynamo making it happen. The Pritzker family member has proven that she's a very hands-on kind of...

Mike Scott leads the Waterboys at Thalia Hall in Chicago on Sept. 16, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Review: The Waterboys want to tell you about, uh, Dennis Hopper, and it’s wonderful

September 17, 2025 at 10:22 a.m.

The Waterboys concert at Thalia Hall focused on their new concept album, “Life, Death and Dennis Hopper."

"Art Work: On the Creative Life," by Sally Mann, "Somebody is Walking on Your Grave," by Mariana Enriquez, and "Dead and Alive Essays," by Zadie Smith. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Books for fall 2025: Luigi, Ozzy and the great beyond

September 11, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

The endless to-be-read list on your phone, the ready-to-be-read stack on your bedside table, should expect company, regardless of whether you read cozy mysteries or harrowing memoirs.

Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of The Who perform at the United Center, Sept. 7, 2025, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Review: The Who says a lovely, ragged farewell at the United Center

September 8, 2025 at 3:26 p.m.

We don't always know how to watch our gods of classic rock as they get older. Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend have an answer, by keeping it real, the screams,...

The “Black Unity” sculpture on display, Sept. 2, 2025, in the new Elizabeth Catlett exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Review: Art Institute’s Catlett show is unnervingly, thrillingly of the moment

September 10, 2025 at 10:04 a.m.

"Elizabeth Catlett: 'A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies'" is full of artwork that stops you in your tracks when you meant to be walking through the exhibit.

Elizabeth Catlett's "Sharecropper" (1952, printed 1970) is part of an upcoming exhibit of her work at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC with support by Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Hartman). Bruce Springsteen's album "Nebraska" was first released in 1984; it inspired a movie based on a book this fall (Columbia). David Byrne is playing a handful of concerts at the Auditorium this fall and contributing to a Goodman Theatre production. (Getty)

Column: Fall Arts Season 2025, or When politics can’t be avoided

September 12, 2025 at 10:41 p.m.

Someday, someone might look back on 2025 and pick through the mountain of symphonies and movies and novels and museum exhibits that were being offered in Chicago. But never mind...

Kat Pence, 58, left, and Lorraine Jackson, 62, scream toward Lake Michigan during the 11th scream club gathering near North Avenue Beach on Aug. 31, 2025, in Chicago. During scream club, participants write something that has been bothering them on biodegradable paper before tossing the paper into Lake Michigan and screaming. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Shout out! The weekly Scream Club Chicago taps into a need — and has already gone global

September 3, 2025 at 6:38 p.m.

It started with just a few people meeting on the lakefront on Sunday evenings to let out their feelings by screaming. There are now chapters in Lisbon and London.

Author Peter Orner, known as a writer's writer. His latest novel, "The Gossip Columnist's Daughter," partly about the real-life murder of Karyn Kupcinet, daughter of Chicago columnist Irv Kupcinet, has the look of a breakout success for the writer. (Liniers)

Peter Orner, the best kept literary secret from Chicago no longer?

August 21, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

His new novel, “The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter,” is about the death of Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet's daughter. Whatever he writes about, he never shakes Chicago.

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