John Warner

When thinking about what to read and then what to share here, I sometimes get trapped into believing it's my job to seek out something new and unknown before returning...

When I heard the recent news of the passing of former longtime college basketball coach Bob Knight, my first thought was about a book. That book is "A Season on...

Sadly, there are currently quite a few ongoing threats to democracy, some of which we as individuals may feel relatively powerless to address. But there's one big threat everyone has...

There was a time when I would've told you there was no writer who I trusted more than Michael Lewis, author of more bestselling nonfiction books than I can count,...

I am trying to remember a darker time in my 50-plus years of Chicago sports fandom. The Cubs fell victim to a nearly 1969-like late summer swoon. The Bulls stood...

In a column just before Labor Day, I mapped out my plan for staying on top of the deluge of desirable fall fiction releases, including books by Zadie Smith, Ben...

Under the umbrella of the Authors Guild, a group of 17 prominent and bestselling authors including Jonathan Franzen, Jodi Picoult, George Saunders, Elin Hilderbrand and George R.R. Martin have sued...

One of the things I love about reading a good work of nonfiction is that it's like you've dispatched your own explorer into the world, tasked to return with the...

I have spent the entirety of the 53-plus years I've been on this Earth immune to the lure of inspirational self-help books. When it comes to inspiration to be better,...

Because I'm a capitalist, I like markets. There's something satisfying about having a mechanism that allows entry to any who would wish, and in which the cream rises to the...