Although Chicago style can appear intimidating, it’s nothing more than a comprehensive guide for writing within the humanities and liberal arts. Footnotes are convenient. Say you’re reading a history ...

Nearly 47,000 students entered the Library of Congress' Letters about Literature writing contest, and two of the three national winners are young ladies from the Chicago area. We heard how the ...

Famed author and University of Chicago alumna Susan Sontag, AB’51, once wrote: “I write—and talk—in order to find out what I think.” A new course in the College is allowing first-years to put that ...

If you're a playwright, you know the tedium of reading your own work to yourself (or maybe to your cat), wondering how the words sound, or how an audience might react. A way for playwrights to cope ...