Mother Foucault Bookshop Has The Best Bookstore Name Around. And Now They Bought Their Own Building.

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Mother Foucault Bookshop Has The Best Bookstore Name Around. And Now They Bought Their Own Building. Powell’s is […]


Eve L. Ewing and pals are buying a Chicago bookstore. ‹

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May 7, 2025, 11:27am We can celebrate a nice bit of bookstore news this week. Three community rock stars—including self-identified “book girlie” Eve L. Ewing—are joining forces to save an imperiled indie. As Maxwell Evans of Block Club Chicago reports, an impressive trifecta is coming to save the clocktower. (Otherwise known as Build Coffee & […]


Remembering David Ruggles, the radical abolitionist who opened the first Black-owned bookstore. ‹

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February 18, 2025, 10:31am This Black History Month is the fraughtest. Maybe even apex fraught. As many hard-won minority group commemorations are being actively scrubbed from government websites, we the recognized are asked to consider what those commemorations have come to mean under elite capture. When your very existence is contested, what are the limits […]


Spending Thanksgiving Eve at a bookstore is what the Founders intended. ‹

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November 27, 2024, 1:17pm There are a lot of lackluster traditions for the day before Thanksgiving: hitting your local bar at night, prepping yourself to face your cousin with the bad politics, going toe-to-toe with fellow procrastinators over that last bag of cranberries. I’d like to pitch a new tradition for your day-before-turkey day: stop […]