Books

Biblioracle: Kudos to Dua Lipa for her latest book club pick

May 3, 2025 at 5:30 a.m.

I have a bit of a hot and cold relationship with our big celebrity book...

April 28, 2025 at 3:57 p.m.

A program that allows Chicago-area libraries to share books is in jeopardy after President Donald...

April 26, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

As Higgins makes clear, the challenge isn't just a few billionaires, but a world unmoored...

April 23, 2025 at 2:16 p.m.

A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to...

April 28, 2025 at 6:48 p.m.

Valerie Kuhn Reid’s book is about the childhood turbulence she experienced while living in Clarendon...

April 23, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

On Wednesday, Random House announced that it would publish a hardcover book in July combining...

April 22, 2025 at 1:22 p.m.

This coming Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day. Should you need some reasons to participate, we...

April 19, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

What's most fascinating to me as a reader is that Szalay has deliberately removed one...

April 12, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Joe Dunthorne unravels the story of his great-grandfather Siegfried Merzbacher, a German Jewish chemist who...

April 10, 2025 at 3:55 p.m.

The Lake Forest women F. Scott Fitzgerald met when they were teenagers and whose inspiration...