Kerry Reid

During the Great Feminist Backlash of the 1980s (not to be confused with the feminist backlash in every other decade), a Newsweek cover story proclaimed that a single white woman...

On the surface, children’s birthday parties are loud, joyous affairs. But if you’ve had a child, or been a child, you know how fraught they can be. They provide us...

Thought pieces abound on the newest generation of young adults — the first raised entirely in the age of the internet. What do they think about the world and their...

In a year when the political and international drama went up to 11, Chicago theaters offered up a raucous and rousing array of productions, from world premieres to classic revivals....

Through political turmoil, social unrest and roller-coaster economic developments, one thing remains true: There’s always a bull market for alternative facts. Fakery-as-commodity in many hues and incarnations forms the zesty...

Take the football culture of “Friday Night Lights,” mix it with the supernatural clamminess of “The X-Files” and strain it through the satiric/horror filter of “Get Out,” and you’re close...

For those who grow sick and tired of being sick and tired about patriarchy and its abuses (so much in the spotlight in recent weeks, but never out of the...