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Five Questions with Monica Steinberg, author of “Lives of the Imaginary Artists in Cold War California”

January 27, 2026

With her new book, Lives of the Imaginary Artists in Cold War California, Monica Steinberg takes us into the world of artists who concealed or fabricated their identities, using pseudonymity, obfuscation, anonymity, (auto)biografiction, imaginary portraiture, heteronymity, role-playing, doubling, and alter ego. These real artists, through their creation of imaginary artists,

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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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French police arrest six ‘radical Islamists’ near Paris

By Homeland Security NTARC News on June 25, 2013

Anti-terror police in France have arrested six people accused of belonging to a radical Islamist cell and preparing attacks in the country. The suspects, aged 22 to 38, were arrested in the Paris region on Monday. “They were planning to commit terrorist acts targeting well-known figures in France,” an unnamed source told the news agency [...]

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French police arrest six ‘radical Islamists’ near Paris

Did NSA leaks help al Qaeda?

By Homeland Security NTARC News on June 25, 2013

Obama administration officials and congressional lawmakers over the past two weeks have condemned Edward Snowden for admittedly leaking classified information on national security surveillance programs. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, spoke of “changes we can already see being made by the folks who wish to do us harm, and our allies [...]

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FBI Launches Active Shooter Webpage

By Homeland Security NTARC News on June 11, 2013

Recent active shooting incidents have underscored the need for a coordinated and consistent law enforcement response to these incidents. And two recent actions—the passage of the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act and an administration initiative targeting violent crime—have enhanced FBI efforts to better assist its law enforcement partners who are almost always the first [...]

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Flight from Los Angeles to Texas diverted to Phoenix after phone bomb threat

By Homeland Security NTARC News on June 11, 2013

The FBI says they found no threats aboard a Southwest Airlines flight that was diverted to Phoenix Monday after a telephone bomb threat. The plane was traveling from Los Angeles to Austin, Texas when authorities in Los Angeles requested authorities in ...

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By John J. Fanning on December 16, 2010

Snow Wreaks Havoc on Travelers

By John J. Fanning on December 11, 2010

High winds and pilling snow drifts left thousands of travelers stranded on highways, subways and airports this Christmas. More…

Why Watch The Blackhawks?

By John J. Fanning on June 11, 2010

Pope Talks Money and New World Order

By John J. Fanning on July 10, 2009

Prairie Fire

By John J. Fanning on July 9, 2009

These Days… When was the last time you heard any Illinois politician speak about bringing business into this state? Do you recall hearing anything in a recent “State of the State” address that forecasted the establishment of even a dozen of the thousands of jobs we so desperately need in Illinois? If you can’t recall the last time anyone spoke…

French police arrest six ‘radical Islamists’ near Paris

Did NSA leaks help al Qaeda?

FBI Launches Active Shooter Webpage

Flight from Los Angeles to Texas diverted to Phoenix after phone bomb threat

Big Cat Attack in India

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Snow Wreaks Havoc on Travelers

Why Watch The Blackhawks?

Pope Talks Money and New World Order

Prairie Fire

Buffett: “Economy a Shambles”

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