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Review: ‘The Bone Clocks’ by David Mitchell
Just to get it out of the way, here is the basic plot of "The Bone Clocks" — the bare frame on which its many elaborate back stories hang: War...
Richard Wright's Native Son Returns to Chicago
A new production at the Court Theatre adapts Wright's 1940 novel about systemic racism on the South Side for the stage.
Review: ‘The Magician’s Land’ by Lev Grossman
At the beginning of "The Magician's Land," the last in Lev Grossman's otherworldly and excellent "Magicians" trilogy, our hero finds himself in a crappy strip-mall bookstore in New Jersey, awaiting...
30-Second Review: ‘The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee’
How a Tribune reporter's attempt to interview Harper Lee led to an unlikely friendship with the legendary author and her sister.
Review: ‘California’ by Edan Lepucki
Much drama has befallen California this year. And not only in real life — that endless drought — but in fiction, as authors have made the Golden State the site...
Review: ‘California’ by Edan Lepucki
Much drama has befallen California this year. And not only in real life — that endless drought — but in fiction, as authors have made the Golden State the site...
Review: ‘Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?’ by Dave Eggers
Joan Didion began her career chronicling a certain ennui afflicting Californians coming up in the Vietnam era who were quickly losing faith in the society their parents created. She sympathized:...
Review: ‘Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?’ by Dave Eggers
Joan Didion began her career chronicling a certain ennui afflicting Californians coming up in the Vietnam era who were quickly losing faith in the society their parents created. She sympathized:...
Review: ‘Song of the Shank’ by Jeffery Renard Allen
Thomas Greene Wiggins was a sensation. A child pianist of prodigious talent, he performed at the White House at age 11, toured widely and helped raise money for the Confederate...