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Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens — a Chicago native who's now 99 — has written a memoir of his first 94 years, called "The Making of a Justice."

A new memoir at age 99: Chicago native Justice John Paul Stevens is still writing

May 14, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

To be 99 years old and still writing, in itself, merits acclaim. And a memoir by Justice John Paul Stevens, whose almost 35-year tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court helped...

Two new books — "Remembering Emmett Till" by Dave Tell and "Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till" by Elliott J. Gorn — consider the continuing reverberations of Emmett Till's murder as nation continues to reckon with racial terror.

The legacy of Emmett Till: Revisiting history as new facts emerge and memories fade

May 9, 2019 at 6:58 p.m.

When the seamstress Rosa Parks famously refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, she was motivated not simply by fatigue or her commitment...

'Political Survivors' by Emma Kuby, a Northern Illinois University faculty member, considers the legacy of Nazi concentration camp survivors who sought to condemn inhumane incarceration around the world. Sachsenhausen, above, held political prisoners during World War II.

‘Political Survivors’ considers the legacy of a commission of Nazi concentration camp survivors

May 9, 2019 at 6:57 p.m.

Amid the vexed politics of the Cold War, a West European commission of Nazi concentration camp survivors — all political resisters — sought to use its moral authority to condemn...

Zachary Leader concludes his revelatory biography of Saul Bellow

May 9, 2019 at 6:56 p.m.

The introduction of Zachary Leader’s definitive, two-volume Saul Bellow biography poses a fundamental question, which he attributes to the novelist on his deathbed: “Was I a man or was I...

Rare bird: Jonathan Franzen weaves avian interest into new essay collection

May 9, 2019 at 6:55 p.m.

Jonathan Franzen — the literary provocateur, Oprah Winfrey antagonist and author of well-reviewed novels of Midwestern life (“The Corrections,” “Freedom”) — has another, more rarefied passion: birding. His sometimes overbearing...

‘The Extra Woman’: Joanna Scutts’ new bio of Marjorie Hillis explores mid-20th-century feminism

May 9, 2019 at 6:44 p.m.

More than a quarter-century before Helen Gurley Brown trumpeted the delights of sex and the single girl, and Betty Friedan exploded the feminine mystique, Marjorie Hillis was exhorting women to...

Obama photographer Pete Souza paints ‘Intimate Portrait’ of president, from fist bumps to phone calls

May 9, 2019 at 6:43 p.m.

It’s been a rough year for Democrats and other Trump skeptics. Have you passed through Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of (political) grief, from denial and anger to acceptance? Pete Souza’s...

‘Brothers and Keepers’: Danielle Allen and Ben Blum grapple with their cousins’ crimes

May 9, 2019 at 6:40 p.m.

In his extraordinary 1984 memoir, "Brothers and Keepers," John Edgar Wideman ruminated on how two brothers, raised in the same Pittsburgh household, could follow such different paths. Embracing academic excellence,...

Then-Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz, left, carries a mattress in protest after the school found a fellow student she had accused of sexual assault "not responsible." Those helping her are supporters she had met moments before.

‘Blurred Lines’ offers nuanced look at campus sexual assault

May 9, 2019 at 6:40 p.m.

The 2015 documentary "The Hunting Ground" made campus sexual assault seem like a pandemic. That same year, Rolling Stone magazine's retraction of a discredited tale about a gang rape at...

Review: Claire Messud sets the world afire — again — with ‘The Burning Girl’

May 9, 2019 at 6:39 p.m.

The title of Claire Messud's latest masterwork of psychological fiction derives from an Elizabeth Bishop poem, "Casabianca," itself a riff on a frequently declaimed 19th-century poem about a maritime disaster....

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