Essay, Review Jacob K. Friefeld 2/13/20 Essay, Review Jacob K. Friefeld 2/13/20

Racial Justice and Public Land: On Charlotte Hinger’s “Nicodemus”

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Essay Anthony Mastromatteo 2/10/20 Essay Anthony Mastromatteo 2/10/20

The Joke is On You

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Review, Essay Paul Buhle 2/6/20 Review, Essay Paul Buhle 2/6/20

A Midwestern Memory Book: On Richard Quinney's "Of Time and Place"

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Essay Andrés Emil González 1/27/20 Essay Andrés Emil González 1/27/20

Death and Decay in the Suburban Midwest: On John Carpenter's "Halloween"

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Review, Essay Charlotte Rosen 1/23/20 Review, Essay Charlotte Rosen 1/23/20

Blurred Politics, Uncomfortable Histories: On Lila Corwin Berman’s “Metropolitan Jews”

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Review, Essay William Clift 1/2/20 Review, Essay William Clift 1/2/20

From Bondage to Freedom in Illinois Country: On M. Scott Heerman's "The Alchemy of Slavery"

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Review, Essay Evan R. Ash 12/24/19 Review, Essay Evan R. Ash 12/24/19

Dispatches from th’ Planet Wisconsin: A Review of "Comics in Wisconsin" by Paul Buhle

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Review, Essay Paul Buhle 10/31/19 Review, Essay Paul Buhle 10/31/19

A Chicagoan's "Love Affair with Life": The Photography of Michael Gaylord James

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Review, Essay Timothy G. Anderson 10/24/19 Review, Essay Timothy G. Anderson 10/24/19

Revisiting an Origin Story: On "Homesteading the Plains"

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Review, Essay Geitner Simmons 10/17/19 Review, Essay Geitner Simmons 10/17/19

Ice Storms in Winter and Tornadoes in Spring: A Review of "Great Plains Weather"

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Review, Essay David Helps 9/25/19 Review, Essay David Helps 9/25/19

What Was The Rust Belt?: On Rebecca J. Kinney’s “Beautiful Wasteland” and Brett Story’s “Prison Land”

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Essay, Review Kevin Tasker 9/9/19 Essay, Review Kevin Tasker 9/9/19

"The Pale King" and the Midwestern Canon

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Review, Essay Ethan Tabor 9/6/19 Review, Essay Ethan Tabor 9/6/19

A Land of Arresting Contrasts: On Harlan Hatcher's "The Western Reserve"

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Review, Essay Patrick Kerin 9/1/19 Review, Essay Patrick Kerin 9/1/19

From Occasional Bootlegger to Disciplined Criminal: On John E. Hallwas' "The Bootlegger"

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Essay Eli Schoop 7/23/19 Essay Eli Schoop 7/23/19

Cultural Cool and Classism in Cleveland

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Essay, Review John Wilson 6/15/19 Essay, Review John Wilson 6/15/19

A Midwestern Novel for the 21st Century: On Wright Morris’s “The Fork River Space Project”

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Review, Essay Philip Harris 6/12/19 Review, Essay Philip Harris 6/12/19

No More Heroes: On "Normal People" by Sally Rooney

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Essay, Review Mary Wisniewski 5/13/19 Essay, Review Mary Wisniewski 5/13/19

“I love thee, infamous city”: On Nelson Algren's "Chicago: City on the Make"

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Essay Brian Fairbanks 5/1/19 Essay Brian Fairbanks 5/1/19

Lou Reed's "New York"

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Essay Anthony Mastromatteo 4/30/19 Essay Anthony Mastromatteo 4/30/19

The Minotaur

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