Books
More than 80 independent bookstores will participate in the annual Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl on Independent Bookstore Day. Stores will offer special discounts and planned activities during the crawl.
Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy interviewed the 79-year-old icon in a wide ranging conversation on the occasion of her new memoir, ‘Bread of Angels.’
But who guides the guide? British Dante scholar Prue Shaw takes readers by the hand with a new, accessible book, “Dante: The Essential Commedia.”
The research library received a Mellon Foundation grant to expand access to its vast Indigenous collections, including materials related to 300 languages.
A new book examines the 16th president’s life through the battle royale of Illinois partisan politics. It’s ugly — and familiar.
One of Chicago’s largest used bookstore chains will close the doors at its Logan Square storefront on March 1. Its West Loop and Pilsen locations will remain open.
The Chicago woman’s memoir “Who’s Watching Shorty?” releases Tuesday, detailing her life under the disgraced R&B artist’s control and tracing her arc from childhood through her pivotal trial testimony.
The South Side native will serve a two-year term as poet laureate and receive $70,000 to commission new works.
Reading “The Grapes of Wrath” for the first time reminded me — there’s nothing like being lost in a book.
Partygoers ditched pop music and booze for a string quartet and tea cakes at a dance in Glen Ellyn, kicking off a week of parties around the author’s 250th birthday.