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Brighten Your Winter Day with Images from “Gems and the New Science”
January 22, 2026
The winter solstice may be behind us, but the Chicago region is still gripped by wintry gloom. We’re brightening our day with a few images from Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution by Michael Bycroft. In this book, Bycroft argues that gems were connected
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Five Questions with Elizabeth Mitchell Elder, author of “Company Towns”
January 14, 2026
In Company Towns, Elizabeth Mitchell Elder examines the long-lasting political legacies of mining-company dominance in the Midwest and Appalachia. While the economic consequences of deindustrialization are well-known, Elder shifts the focus to a more insidious problem: the political dysfunction that took root long before the mines shut down. Elder charts
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A Conversation on Writing, Craft, and Poetry
December 18, 2025
Read on below for a conversation between CavanKerry Press authors Dorsía Smith Silva (In Inheritance of Drowning) and Cati Porter (The Body at a Loss) about their writing journeys and the craft of poetry. Cati Porter: Dorsía, you read and reviewed my first poetry collection, Seven Floors Up, for a
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Five Questions with Alison Bashford, author of “Decoding the Hand”
December 17, 2025
Decoding the Hand is an astounding history of magic, medicine, and science, of an enduring search for how our bodily surfaces might reveal an inner self. From sixteenth-century occult physicians to twentieth-century geneticists, and from criminologists to eugenicists, award-winning historian Alison Bashford takes us on a remarkable journey into the
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Read an Excerpt from “Atlas’s Bones” by D. Vance Smith
December 10, 2025
Atlas’s Bones is a major new look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe. D. Vance Smith reveals that much of what is claimed as European culture up to the Middle Ages—its great themes in literature, its sources in
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Five Questions for Joshua B. Freeman, Author of “Garden Apartments”
November 25, 2025
In his new book, eminent historian Joshua B. Freeman turns his attention to an overlooked feature of the American landscape: garden apartments. He details their outsized influence on housing and social policy, helping improve living standards for working people. Inspired by the architectural innovations and socialist politics of British garden
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Five Questions with Cynthia Cruz, poet and author of “Sweet Repetition”
November 21, 2025
As we continue to celebrate the amazing writers, editors, and translators in our Phoenix Poets series, we’re delighted to highlight poet Cynthia Cruz, whose latest poetry collection, Sweet Repetition, published with the series in October. Sweet Repetition centers its movement on repetition and return, integrating Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, continental
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Read an Excerpt from “The Adaptability Paradox” by Stephen Skowronek
November 18, 2025
Faith in the resilience and adaptability of the US Constitution rests on a long history of finding new ways to make the system work. In The Adaptability Paradox, political scientist Stephen Skowronek examines the rearrangements that regenerated the American government in the past and brings that experience to bear on
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From the Archives and Spotlight Collections from Chicago Journals
November 13, 2025
In 2023, the University of Chicago Press Journals Division launched a new online feature called “From the Archives” to bring new readership to less recent and archival scholarship. Each month, our team works to choose a different topic, and articles are selected for inclusion on the page via keyword search.
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After Lyric Opera Show Canceled, Chicago Teens Now Performing Online

By Chicago Public Media on May 18, 2020

A group of Chicago teens lost out on a once-in-lifetime chance to perform with the Lyric Opera, but are still finding ways to connect and shine online. Host: Melba Lara Reporter: Adriana Cardona Maguigad

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