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Newcity Lit Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago Menu Newcity Newcity Network Best of Chicago Art Brazil Design Film Lit About Newcity Lit Advertise Contributors Indie Bookstore Guide Privacy Policy Music Resto Stage Facebook Twitter Instagram Search Subscribe Magazine Memberships Newsletters Search Search Close this search box. Understanding Others Through the Self: A Review of Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work” by Zak Mucha Donald G. Evans May 9, 2024 It is a fascinating and insightful memoir that gifts readers with a chance to meet and understand people present but otherwise unknown. Mucha’s greatest success is that he treats his subjects as they are—not entirely harmless or universally threatening, but people coping with unfathomable problems. LATEST STORIES She Is Really Hungry: Beth Hetland Discusses Her Graphic Novel, Tender” No Ovation: A Review of Thunder on the Stage—The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright” by Bruce Allen Dick Lit Top 5: May 2024 When He Grooved in Chi: How the City Shaped the Writing and Worldview of Terry Southern TOP 5 LITERARY EVENTS THIS MONTH Election Year Required Reading: A Review of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It” by Ari Berman Scott Pfeiffer April 22, 2024 At the risk of sounding like one of those daily fundraising e-mails you get from the Democratic Governors Association, democracy is on the line in 2024, and Ari Berman’s important and readable new book is a guide to how and why the stakes got to be this high. Bawdy Vignettes: A Review of Libertine London—Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis” by Julie Peakman Mary Wisniewski April 18, 2024 Peakman’s alluring book chronicles sexual activity between men and women, men and men, and men and children in pre-Victorian England. It’s a fascinating, grotesque journey that will broaden your view of the days of wigs and knee breeches—it was a lot stickier than you imagined. Amid a Lineage: A Review of Audubon as Artist” by Roberta J. M. Olson Sara Rauch April 15, 2024 The book situates Audubon in a rightful place amid a lineage of artists, both historical and contemporary. He may have struggled to accept himself, but his glorious images have stood the test of time; his birds continue to captivate and inspire. POPULAR STORIES Literati of the Moment: A Conversation With Michelle Boone, Adrian Matejka and Fred Sasaki of the Poetry Foundation Lit Top 5: March 2024 Nonfiction Review: Plastic: A Toxic Love Story” by Susan Freinkel Courting Controversy: A Conversation with Novelist Gioia Diliberto About Coco at the Ritz The Twenty-First Century Plague: A Review of The Last Man” by Mary Shelley Patrick Roberts April 11, 2024 In the post-pandemic era, it is especially resonating to re-read Mary Shelley’s The Last Man,” now in a new Penguin Classics edition, a story that took place in the late twenty-first century when a plague swept the earth clean of humanity. Art for Life’s Sake: Essential Reading About the Healing Power of Music Sara Rauch April 8, 2024 Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness,” the new anthology edited by Renée Fleming, explores music’s means of connection, solace, movement, education and emotion. If There’s Art, There’s Connection: A Review of Glorious Exploits” by Ferdia Lennon Kelly Roark April 4, 2024 Ferdia Lennon pens his ode to the power of art in a time of war in his own contemporary Irish tongue. What sounds audacious—writing a fifth-century Greek story in Modern Irish—simply works. Well, why not? He’s not writing it in ancient Greek. More Stories MAY 2024: RAMBERG GET A COPY SUBSCRIBE Facebook Twitter Instagram About Privacy Policy Advertise Subscribe Newsletters Chicago Film Project Copyright Newcity Communications, Inc. ©...