The simple red and white exterior of the BiB Community Arts Space belies the treasure trove found inside. Blue and silver star-shaped balloons cling to a storefront that looks like a candy shop for kids in the Roseland neighborhood. But the center at 119 E. 107th St. is a bookstore and a safe space where […]
“The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing” is a gorgeous book with hundreds of full-color photos and illustrations.
A tremendously interesting, highly entertaining new book looks at the political landscape of the post-Reagan years.
On June 30, 1936, Margaret Mitchell’s novel “Gone With the Wind” was released.
Take this mixture of suspense and stir to get a page-turning new book about a former hired killer, trying to give up the game.
He wrote the novel “American Skin,” taught at Columbia and contributed all over Chicago. He died June 13 at age 56.
On June 26, 1997, the first Harry Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling, was published in the United Kingdom (it was later released in the United States under the title “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”).
Hillary Clinton’s next book is a collection of essays, touching upon everything from marriage to politics to faith, that her publisher is calling her most personal yet.
On June 25, 1947, “The Diary of a Young Girl,” the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.
Reading the novel was a bracing reminder of how readily the world has snapped back to the pre-pandemic status quo without fully dealing with the fractures the pandemic period revealed.