Thousands of books have been removed from schools and libraries over the past several years, often accompanied by stormy public meetings and acrimonious debate. But there is a quieter way books have been pulled from libraries — a process called weeding.
“Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports” by Mark and Matthew Jacob takes on a challenging and exciting subject.
In talking to some folks who work up and down the industry, there’s a sense that some energy has been lacking.
Twenty-two new geniuses were anointed Tuesday as the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation announced the 2024 winners of its MacArthur Fellowship.
Garth Greenwell’s new novel unfolds over the nearly two weeks of his hospitalization. It had me in its grip from start to finish.
Five long months into the pandemic, Aiden Branss found himself wide awake in the middle of the night, meditating on the world’s battered state and sucking down coffee. The 16-year-old grabbed his laptop, and began to write. And after Branss’ midnight oil burned away, he was left with the beginning of his first novel. What began […]
An updated and expanded version of the Tribune’s “Holiday Cookies” book is now available.
Vince Evans and Doug Williams are the central figures of historian Louis Moore’s fascinating book, “The Great Black Hope.”
On Sept. 21, 1937, “The Hobbit,” by J.R.R. Tolkien, was first published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. of London.
Artifacts saved from the former offices of Johnson Publishing Co. on Michigan Avenue are on display through March at the Stony Island Arts Bank on Chicago’s South Side.