In subzero January, the deep green trunk of my monstera houseplant broke clean off from its pot. The leathery, split, hole-punched leaves curled away as I hurriedly placed it in water on my sun-soaked apartment mantle, wondering if it, too, would eventually root and then die, like all the other pro pagations I’d tried before.  Last […] The post The Reader is reborn as a monthly magazine appeared first on Chicago Reader. ...read more read less