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Fiction
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Jan 1, 2024
"A Curtain of Green and Other Stories" by Eudora Welty (1941)
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Jan 1, 2024
"A Guardian Angel Recalls" by Willem Frederik Hermans, Translated by David Colmer (1971, 2021)
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Jan 1, 2024
"All Around Atlantis" by Deborah Eisenberg (1997)
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Jan 2, 2024
"Birds of America" by Lorrie Moore (1998)
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Jan 2, 2024
"Blood Test" by Charles Baxter (2024)
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Feb 1, 2024
"Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" by Bette Howland (2019)
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Feb 1, 2024
"Collected Stories" by William Faulkner (1950)
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Feb 2, 2024
"Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes, Translated by Edith Grossman (1615, 2003)
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Mar 1, 2024
"El Filibusterismo" by José Rizal, Translated by Harold Augenbraum (1891, 2011)
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Mar 1, 2024
"Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O’Connor (1965)
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Mar 2, 2024
"Fifty-Two Stories" by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2021)
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Mar 2, 2024
"Flowering Judas and Other Stories" by Katherine Anne Porter (1935)
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Mar 2, 2024
"Flying Home and Other Stories" by Ralph Ellison (1996)
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Mar 2, 2024
"Franny and Zooey" by J.D. Salinger (1961)
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Apr 1, 2024
"Good Behaviour" by Molly Keane (1981)
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Apr 1, 2024
"Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales" (1993)
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Apr 2, 2024
"Heart of Junk" by Luke Geddes (2020)
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Apr 2, 2024
"Humboldt's Gift" by Saul Bellow (1975)
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May 1, 2024
"In Love" by Alfred Hayes (1953)
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May 1, 2024
"In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" by William H. Gass (1968)
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May 1, 2024
"Insurrecto" by Gina Apostol (2018)
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May 2, 2024
“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
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Jun 1, 2024
"Kudos" by Rachel Cusk (2018)
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Jun 2, 2024
"Laughable Loves" by Milan Kundera, Translated by Suzanne Rappaport (1969, 1974)
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Jun 2, 2024
"Light in August" by William Faulkner (1932)
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Jun 2, 2024
"Lot" by Bryan Washington (2019)
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Jun 2, 2024
"Lucky Per" by Henrik Pontoppidan, Translated by Naomi Lebowitz (1904, 2019)
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Jul 1, 2024
"Middlemarch" by George Eliot (1872)
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Jul 1, 2024
"Miss Lonelyhearts" by Nathanael West (1933)
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Jul 1, 2024
"Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville (1851)
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Jul 1, 2024
"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf (1925)
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Jul 1, 2024
"My Face for the World to See" by Alfred Hayes (1958)
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Jul 2, 2024
"Never Come Morning" by Nelson Algren (1942)
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Aug 1, 2024
"Oreo" by Fran Ross (1974)
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Aug 1, 2024
"Outline" by Rachel Cusk (2015)
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Aug 2, 2024
"Pale Horse, Pale Rider" by Katherine Anne Porter (1939)
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Aug 2, 2024
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog" by Dylan Thomas (1940)
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Oct 1, 2024
"Sanctuary" by William Faulkner (1931)
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Oct 1, 2024
"Ship of Fools" by Katherine Anne Porter (1962)
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Oct 1, 2024
"Sons and Lovers" by D.H. Lawrence (1913)
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Oct 1, 2024
"Speedboat" by Renata Adler (1976)
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Oct 1, 2024
"Storm" by George R. Stewart (1941)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon (2000)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Ambassadors" by Henry James (1903)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Bear" by William Faulkner (1942)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories" by Eudora Welty (1955)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Company She Keeps" by Mary McCarthy (1942)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Complete Short Novels" by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2004)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West (1939)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The End of Me" by Alfred Hayes (1968)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Fun Parts" by Sam Lipsyte (2013)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Gambler / Bobok / A Nasty Story" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Translated by Jessie Coulson (1966)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Golden Apples" by Eudora Welty (1949)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904" by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Ronald Wilks (2002)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Leaning Tower and Other Stories" by Katherine Anne Porter (1944)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Man Who Loved Children" by Christina Stead (1940)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Neon Wilderness" by Nelson Algren (1947)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Portable Beat Reader" Edited by Ann Charters (1992)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Sellout" by Paul Beatty (2015)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop." by Robert Coover (1968)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Wide Net and Other Stories" by Eudora Welty (1943)
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Oct 2, 2024
"Transit" by Rachel Cusk (2016)
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Oct 2, 2024
"Trust" by Hernan Diaz (2022)
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Dec 1, 2024
"Washington Square" by Henry James (1880)
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Dec 1, 2024
"What Maisie Knew" by Henry James (1897)
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Dec 1, 2024
"Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson (1919)
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Dec 3, 2024
"Your Duck Is My Duck" by Deborah Eisenberg (2018)
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Nonfiction
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Jan 1, 2024
"A Little Book on Form" by Robert Haas (2017)
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Jan 1, 2024
"A Rhetoric of Irony" by Wayne C. Booth (1974)
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Jan 1, 2024
"A Swim in a Pond in the Rain" by George Saunders (2021)
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Jan 1, 2024
"Actual Minds, Possible Worlds" by Jerome Bruner (1986)
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Jan 1, 2024
"Advertising for Skeptics" by Bob Hoffman (2020)
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Jan 1, 2024
"Advertising Theory" Edited by Shelly Rodgers and Esther Thorson (2019)
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Jan 1, 2024
"An American Summer - Love and Death in Chicago" by Alex Kotlowitz (2019)
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Jan 1, 2024
"Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought - Selected Letters and Commentary" Edited and Annotated by Simon Karlinsky, Translated by Michael Henry Heim (1973)
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Jan 2, 2024
"Black Dada Reader" Edited by Adam Pendleton (2017)
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Jan 2, 2024
"Breaking Up [at] Totality - A Rhetoric of Laughter" by D. Diane Davis (2000)
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Feb 1, 2024
"Chekhov Becomes Chekhov" by Bob Blaisdell (2022)
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Feb 1, 2024
"Chicago - A Literary History" Edited by Frederik Byrn Køhlert (2021)
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Feb 1, 2024
"Chicago: City on the Make" by Nelson Algren (1951)
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Feb 1, 2024
"Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, Fourth Edition" by Edward P.J. Corbett and Robert J. Connors (1999)
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Feb 1, 2024
"Commodify Your Dissent - Salvos from The Baffler" Edited by Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland (1997)
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Feb 1, 2024
"Contagious - Why Things Catch On" by Jonah Berger (2013)
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Feb 1, 2024
"Creating Fiction - Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs" Edited by Julie Checkoway (1999)
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Feb 1, 2024
"Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic - The Aesthetics of Consumerism" by Daniel Harris (2000)
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Feb 2, 2024
"Dancing in the Streets - A History of Collective Joy" by Barbara Ehrenreich (2006)
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Mar 2, 2024
"Fiction and the Figures of Life" by William H. Gass (1971)
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Mar 2, 2024
"Fire on the Prairie - Chicago’s Harold Washington and the Politics of Race" by Gary Rivlin (1992)
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Mar 2, 2024
"Flyboy in the Buttermilk - Essays on Contemporary America" by Greg Tate (1992)
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Apr 1, 2024
"Go All the Way - A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop" Edited by Paul Myers and S.W. Lauden (2019)
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Apr 2, 2024
"Having and Being Had" by Eula Biss (2020)
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Apr 2, 2024
"Humour" by Terry Eagleton (2019)
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May 1, 2024
"If Only We Could Know! - An Interpretation of Chekhov" by Vladimir Kataev, Translated and Edited by Harvey Pitcher (2002)
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May 1, 2024
"Immortal Comedy - The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life" by Agnes Heller (2005)
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May 1, 2024
"It's Not Easy Bein' Me" by Rodney Dangerfield (2004)
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May 2, 2024
"Jokes - Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters" by Ted Cohen (1999)
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Jun 1, 2024
"Kieślowski on Kieślowski" Edited by Danusia Stok (1993)
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Jun 2, 2024
"Laughter - Notes on a Passion" by Anca Parvulescu (2010)
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Jun 2, 2024
"Letters on the Short Story, the Drama, and Other Literary Topics" by Anton Chekhov, Selected and Edited by Louis S. Friedland (1924)
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Jul 2, 2024
"Natural Causes" by Barbara Ehrenreich (2018)
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Jul 2, 2024
"New Yorkers - A City and Its People in Our Time" by Craig Taylor (2021)
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Jul 2, 2024
"Nickel and Dimed - On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
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Jul 2, 2024
"Nonconformity - Writing on Writing" by Nelson Algren (1996)
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Aug 1, 2024
"Of Elephants and Toothaches - Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s ‘Decalogue’" Edited by Eva Badowska and Francesca Parmeggiani (2016)
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Aug 1, 2024
"On Writing" by Eudora Welty (2002)
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Aug 1, 2024
"Our Aesthetic Categories - Zany, Cute, Interesting" by Sianne Ngai (2012)
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Aug 2, 2024
"Pleasure: A History" Edited by Lisa Shapiro (2018)
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Sep 1, 2024
"Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" by Fredric Jameson (1991)
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Sep 2, 2024
"Rabelais and His World" by Mikhail Bakhtin, Translated by Hélène Iswolsky (1965, 1968)
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Oct 1, 2024
“Schulz and Peanuts” by David Michaelis (2007)
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Oct 1, 2024
"Simple Forms" by André Jolles, Translated by Peter J. Schwartz (1958, 2017)
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Oct 1, 2024
"Soldier Field - A Stadium and Its City" by Liam T. A. Ford (2009)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Art of Fiction" by John Gardner (1983)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Art of the Novel - Critical Prefaces" by Henry James (1934)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick" by Elizabeth Hardwick, Selected by Darryl Pinckney (2017)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook" Edited by Martha Bayne (2019)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Craft of Fiction" by Percy Lubbock (1921)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Death and Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs (1961)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Formal Principle in the Novel" by Austin M. Wright (1982)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Labyrinth of the Comic - Theory and Practice from Fielding to Freud" by Richard Keller Simon (1985)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Managed Heart - Commercialization of Human Feeling" by Arlie Russell Hochschild (1983)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Odd One In - On Comedy" by Alenka Zupančič (2008)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Rhetoric of Fiction" by Wayne C. Booth (1961)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Sociology of Fun" by Ben Fincham (2016)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Tyranny of Virtue - Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies" by Robert Boyers (2019)
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Oct 2, 2024
"Theory of Literature" by Paul H. Fry (2012)
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Oct 2, 2024
"There Are No Children Here - The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America" by Alex Kotlowitz (1991)
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Dec 1, 2024
"W-3" by Bette Howland (1974)
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Dec 1, 2024
"What to Listen for in Music" by Aaron Copland (1939)
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Dec 1, 2024
"Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular" by Rust Hills (1977)
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Plays
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Feb 2, 2024
"Dinner with Friends" by Donald Margulies (1998)
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May 1, 2024
"Ivanov - A Drama in Four Acts" by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Peter Carson (1887, 2004)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Brute and Other Farces by Anton Chekhov" Edited by Eric Bentley (1958)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Cherry Orchard - A Comedy in Four Acts" by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Peter Carson (1904, 2004)
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Oct 2, 2024
"The Seagull - A Comedy in Four Acts" by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Peter Carson (1896, 2004)
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Oct 2, 2024
"Three Sisters - A Drama in Four Acts" by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Peter Carson (1900, 2004)