The radical hope of the Obama Center: Rethinking what a presidential library can be
The Obama Presidential Center is a world unto itself, a self-contained universe, a self-described space where “hope has a home.”
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Column: For ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’s’ 40th anniversary, we found the real Ferris Bueller
Ed McNally, a former classmate of filmmaker John Hughes, is now an attorney. And he helped us litigate a case against “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
Summer books: Our 50 coolest books for your hottest months
What are you looking for in your summer reading? Chicago stories, books about music or celebrities, history lessons, or tawdry, trashy novels that are secretly good? Read on.
Looking for a book for America 250? Here’s what historians are reading.
From "Why Fish Don’t Exist" to "Beloved," here are the books that Chicago's experts recommend the most highly for the nation's semiquincentennial, and why.
What Dave Eggers wishes he had known when he was young and cool
With his new novel "Contrapposto," Dave Eggers writes about being young, an art student and in love with art.
David Sedaris on writing: AI doesn’t scare him but New Yorker copy editors do
David Sedaris realized he wanted to write for a living and read his stories to live audiences while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of...
Evanston’s prolific horror novelist Daniel Kraus wins Pulitzer for fiction
He found out on Monday, like everyone else. The Pulitzer committee described "Angel Down" as “a breathless novel of World War I, a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as...
Shelby Van Pelt wrote the octopus book ‘Bright Creatures,’ and it keeps pulling her back
The author, who lives in Wheaton, has a new challenge now that “Remarkably Bright Creatures" is a Netflix movie starring Sally Field: Escaping its popularity long enough to write a...
Whatever happened to the revolution? Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s new memoir confronts his notorious Chicago parents.
“Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young” is Zayd Ayers Dohrn's remarkable memoir confronting his parents, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground.
Column: A K-pop newbie went to TWICE, and here are a few thoughts
About 90 million K-pop albums were sold last year but plenty of, ahem, older music fans are still unfamiliar. One of them went to the United Center on Monday night.