Eighteen white-bearded men who resemble the late U.S. author Ernest Hemingway, who was an Oak Park native, arrived in Havana to visit some of his favorite places when he lived on the island decades ago.
He is the author of numerous short stories and novels and perhaps best known for “My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist.”
Weike Wang delivers sharp, funny, sneakily emotional stories that you will read compulsively until completion.
A number of these books are pricey, but found online at deep discounts. A number are also, for the right person, a gift that never leaves their possession, never finds itself in a thrift store, never even gets lent out.
If you need a stack of fresh takes for 2025, start with these 10 standout books from 2024.
Barbara Taylor Bradford, a British journalist who became a publishing sensation in her 40s with the saga “A Woman of Substance” and wrote more than a dozen other novels that sold tens of millions of copies, has died. She was 91.
Chicago engineer Jose Cardona says the idea for a clock wasn’t his alone, he was just the first to build one. Four years later, they can’t make them fast enough.
In her new book, “We Will Rest! The Art of Escape,” the author and academic says you too can flee the toxic grind culture.
It is deeply pleasing to know that Dorothy Allison lived a happy and fulfilled adult life. Her work will endure long after her death.
On Nov. 14, 1851, Herman Melville’s novel “Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale” was published in the United States, almost a month after being released in Britain.