Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader is one of those tricky novels that, based on the sober moral questions it poses and its close-to-elegant style, pretends to high literary seriousness while offering its ...

In subzero January, the deep green trunk of my monstera houseplant broke clean off from its pot. The leathery, split, hole-punched leaves curled away as I hurriedly placed it in water on my sun-soaked ...

"We need storytellers who aren’t afraid to be messy, raw, urgent, and immediate." Credit: Shira Friedman-Parks for Chicago Reader So forgive me if these notes on the impact of arts coverage seem raw ...

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The Chicago Reader has avoided closure after a successful fundraising campaign, a reversal of fortunes from earlier this year when the publication underwent layoffs. The newspaper said in a memo to ...

When Jim Holman founded the San Diego Reader in late 1972, the city’s population was around 700,000. It cost $400 to print 20,000 newspapers. The cover story was about Horton Plaza — the downtown park ...