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‘Who Doesn’t Love Boobs?’
A jewelry line that resonates during Breast Cancer Awareness Month and beyond
Against Hustle Culture
Social psychologist and Loyola professor Devon Price challenges the idea of laziness in a productivity-obsessed world.
10 books to read in winter 2020: It’s a new literary year
Resolved to read more books in 2020? Plenty of options await you. From freshly collected Harlem Renaissance-era stories by Zora Neale Hurston ("Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick,"...
2019 books on the attention economy: Reclaiming our focus in a world of distraction
NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019: Through the end of the year, the baiduhai is revisiting books worthy of further recognition. In 2017, psychologist Jean M. Twenge published an article in...
Fall literary preview: 28 books you need to read now
"When Autumn comes, O when Fall arrives / in her chemise of zillion colors," wrote poet James Tate, "I will sigh noisily, as if an old and / disgusting leg...
In highly anticipated ‘White Negroes,’ Lauren Michele Jackson offers nuanced critique of cultural appropriation
Cultural appropriation isn't a new concept, but the debate rages on in 2019. Whether in response to Kim Kardashian West's "Kimono" shapewear or Gucci retailing a $790 turban or white...
Eve L. Ewing on ‘1919,’ her new poetry collection about Chicago’s little-known race riot
Eve L. Ewing would like folks to spend 20 minutes Wikipedia-ing 'Chicago race riot of 1919,' the violent conflict that erupted across the city a century ago — the deadliest...
Laura Adamczyk: Chicago author’s debut collection, ‘Hardly Children,’ shows bold promise
Several stories in Laura Adamczyk’s forthcoming collection, “Hardly Children,” are, in fact, peopled with kids — or, as one character calls them, “smaller, more naive adults.” Others feature juvenile-acting grown-ups,...
Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen on their Trump parody
The book cover has all the aspirational seriousness of a Trump presidency: There’s the man himself, with his signature long red tie and flaxen hair helmet, leaning over the Resolute...