Biblioracle: Netflix’s ‘Ripley’ does justice to Patricia Highsmith’s book By John Warner April 27, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. I started the new Netflix series “Ripley” as a decided skeptic. The show’s source material,...
What to do around Chicago: Trace Adkins, C2E2 and a bookstore crawl By Jennifer Day April 26, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. Also this weekend, Frankie Beverly at the United Center, Mike Birbiglia in the Loop and...
College students, inmates and a nun: A unique book club meets at Cook County Jail By Sophia Tareen April 24, 2024 at 4:11 p.m. One club rule is clear: Discussions about personal lives are encouraged, but no questions are...
Callie Siskel’s poetry book ‘Two Minds’ connects with her late father Gene Siskel By Rick Kogan April 23, 2024 at 7:09 a.m. Her first book “Two Minds” is a collection of nearly 50 poems dedicated to her...
Biblioracle: What is happiness? A slim new book from Adam Gopnik has an answer By John Warner April 22, 2024 at 12:26 p.m. When I saw the title, the song “Happiness” from the musical “You’re a Good Man,...
Column: As ‘Tortured Poets Department’ arrives, we wondered: Can Taylor Swift be poetry? By Christopher Borrelli April 23, 2024 at 2:26 p.m. It goes back to debates about Dylan — actually much earlier. It has special roots...
Growing idea: Libraries repurpose card catalogs for garden seed exchanges By Melinda Moore April 18, 2024 at 3:50 p.m. Area libraries, including those in Homewood, Park Forest and Blue Island, are repurposing old card...
With ‘James,’ Percival Everett may now be America’s greatest living author — and its hardest interview By Christopher Borrelli May 5, 2025 at 3:35 p.m. The story is told by Mark Twain's character of Jim. “I think people assume because...
Times change, but City News Cafe stays the course as the place with thousands of magazines By Rick Kogan April 17, 2024 at 5:15 a.m. The store often attracts customers from nearby states such as Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa.
Biblioracle: John Barth dies at 93 — his books pulled stories apart By John Warner April 13, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. I first picked up the postmodern novelist's “Lost in the Funhouse” and I've never read...