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Five years ago, before the birth of son Roy Walker, now age 4, Tribune photographer Chris Walker, wife Jenny Lerum and her father, Glen Lerum, climbed into the Walker family's...

The Bridge of San Luis Rey By Thornton Wilder HarperCollins, 138 pages, $19.95 A new edition of this novel, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1928, is handsomely published with...

Two centuries ago, a form of stickball called "hurley" was adapted to a frozen pond, and ice hockey was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia. In those days, the players were...

The full spectrum of human emotion is represented in the Magazine this week. In our first "Year in Pictures" issue, Tribune photographers tell the story of 2003: the sorrow and...

While attending "Songs of Good Cheer," the annual holiday singalong conducted by Tribune columnists Mary Schmich and Eric Zorn at the Old Town School of Folk Music, some of us...

Every week the Magazine is brought to you by our little team here. Editors, writers, photographers and art directors are part of a constant conversation: What is the best way...

The Tribune awarded its Heartland Prize for Fiction to Charles Frazier for "Cold Mountain" in 1997. Bookworms in these quarters delighted in the success of this first novel, a captivating...

The Faith of a Writer By Joyce Carol Oates Ecco, 158 pages, $21.95 "More about the process of writing than the uneasy, uncertain position of being a writer," Joyce Carol...

In the course of teaching freshman English at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Pilsen four years ago, Carolyn Alessio was introducing a word--erudite--to the class. "Ms. Alessio," student Sergio...

As the rest of the city sipped Frappuccinos, sat by the air conditioning and sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," here at the Magazine we were singing, "Let...