You may recognize Mindy Kaling as Kelly Kapoor on NBC’s The Office—a character with the diet of Janet Jackson, the [...]
Books & Comics
Book review: The Francis Parkman Library of America collection
I remember well a CBC interview with renowned and nationalistic Canadian historian Pierre Berton where he stressed two critical issues [...]
Shakespeare live and uncut!
Let’s say you’re writing a final paper on Shakespeare. Are you going to waste two hours reading a complicated play [...]
Book Review: The Universe in Miniature in Miniature
It’s a common 3rd grade science project to cut out little planets of paper, attach them to yarn, and dangle [...]
Flesh-eating hordes of madness
Last week, Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, gave a lecture about zombie preparedness [...]
Personal histories, cartoons and spending a night with Nic Cage
Post-It Note Diaries is a collection of graphic-memoirs illustrated by This American Life contributor Arthur Jones. The stories are written [...]
Author and U of I alum John Warner reads at Illini Union Bookstore Oct. 17
Do you like to laugh? Cry? Contemplate the complexity of celebrity and fame in the information age? If the answer [...]
CARR reading series
The Carr Reading Series features visiting authors who read their work for Illinois students. The Creative Writing faculty of the [...]
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel anxious and frightened and scared
A clever fox once said, “Chaos reigns” Things fall apart; entropy rides everything. You and everyone you’ve ever known is [...]
Chicago Comic Con
I don’t get paid very well. So it shouldn’t be a surprise when I say that I didn’t have the [...]
Sailor Moon returns!
Die hard animé fans and those of us who grew up in the 90s hold a special place in our [...]
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