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Biblioracle: Finally reading ‘Zuckerman Bound,’ and why we don’t have writers like Philip Roth anymore

August 2, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

By an accident of fate, I recently found myself reading a couple of previously unread...

July 26, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Hannah Pittard's "If You Love It, Let It Kill You" is funny, searching, anarchic and...

July 19, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

The CPL has a 2025 survey to better understand what people want from their local...

July 14, 2025 at 3:04 p.m.

Three days of readings, musical performances and 'running of the bulls' planned for the Hemingway...

July 12, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

"Things in Nature Merely Grow" is about what Yiyun Li calls life inside an “abyss,”...

July 9, 2025 at 8:50 a.m.

A heist to erase student loan debt is at the center of the novel "The...

July 9, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

“The Aviator and the Showman” by Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an exciting new book about...

July 8, 2025 at 1:27 p.m.

The Midwest Underground Railroad Network and Chicago Association of African American Storytellers are presenting freedom...

July 5, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

With “Toni at Random,” Dana A. Williams has crafted a book that manages to satisfy...

July 3, 2025 at 5:29 p.m.

La Grange Library Trustee Becky Spratford has decided that after 24 years, it’s time to...