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Inside Inside By James Lipton New Americal Library, 492 pages, $15 "Inside the Actors Studio," the TV interview show hosted by James Lipton, has featured more than 200 actors, directors...

"Newly Decorated," blared the rental agents. New to Chicago, I had one hope: Lakeview. Why pay extra for someone else's bad taste when there wasn't anything a few framed posters,...

The Girl From Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home By Sadia Shepard Penguin, 364 pages, $25.95 "Listen carefully," writes Sadia Shepard in the...

Magazine writer Don Terry had heard from his wife, who had grown up in Gary, that the city was a kind of Brigadoon. Like other cities, it thrived -- until...

More Than It Hurts You By Darin Strauss Penguin, 416 pages, $24.95 Summer may be ending, but indulge in just one more page-turner of a novel. The third book by...

"Hoosiers" and "Remember the Titans" may be among the great sports movies of recent memory and as much as we remember the performances of stars Gene Hackman or Denzel Washington,...

I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies By Daniel M. Kimmel Ivan R. Dee, 294 pages, $26.95 Some days, the only thing that seems...

Welcome to the Cool Issue. To wit: The centerpiece of this week's magazine is a cool 27-year-old named Adrian Holovaty (even his name is cool). Holovaty, a Web developer and...

The Autobiographer's Handbook: The 826 Valencia Guide to Writing Your Memoir Edited by Jennifer Traig, introduction by Dave Eggers Holt, 276 pages, $15 (paper) Doesn't it seem like everyone you...

This issue was born on a Spring Break trip, when my colleague, Tempo editor Tim Bannon, took a detour and ended up in Cairo, known to his family for its...