Samizdat Blog

When last we checked in with our hero, The Poet Who Has Lived Through All of History, he'd come some distance in his dreams of pow...

The critic Robert von Hallberg has retired from the faculty at the University of Chicago, and the editors of the Chicago Review  have ma...

If you'd wandered into the garden lobby of the Museum of Modern Art early last February, you might have met the sight (and considerab...

The seasons govern us, we professors, just as surely as they governed our agrarian ancestors.   Like farmers, we find the nature of our wo...