Watch a recording of a live post-run panel discussion with two Japanese-American historians and activists Alice Murata and Mary Doi that Read & Run Chicago hosted at Slant of Light Books in February 2025.

To understand more the real-life parallels between Makkai’s novel and 1980s Lakeview, Read & Run Chicago hosted three LGBTQ elders after our Book Club Run of The Great Believers in January 2025 in partnership with Gerber/Hart Library & Archives, the largest LGBTQ archives in the Midwest and a resource for Rebecca Makkai.

Watch this video to hear from two former members of Jane, the revolutionary underground abortion network in Chicago.