Recommendations
for Chicago
Hood Feminism
Hood Feminism is a brutally candid portrait of mainstream white feminism. The electrifying critique is announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism. It is an act of fierce love and advocacy, a call to action for today’s feminists and an urgent piece of feminist discourse.
Sarah Farina
Chicago: City on the Make
The ultimate Chicago book. Rough, rugged, and raw - because the Windy City "has always been a manipulated ball game."
Wellness
Set in Chicago, Nathan Hill’s sprawling, darkly funny novel follows Jack and Elizabeth from their first encounter in the city's bohemian art scene of the 1990s to the disillusionments of middle-aged marriage. A sharp exploration of love, self-improvement, gentrification, and the absurdities of contemporary American life, Wellness asks what happens when the stories we tell ourselves stop matching reality.
A novel of beautiful sensitivity, capturing all the little parameters that shape our lives. What seems like a random story becomes a remarkably precise and moving portrait of the complexity of being human. And a wonderful way to discover Chicago along the way, in an entirely unhurried, understated manner.