Biblioracle: Netflix’s ‘Ripley’ does justice to Patricia Highsmith’s book
I started the new Netflix series âRipleyâ as a decided skeptic. The showâs source material,...
Books
What to do around Chicago: Trace Adkins, C2E2 and a bookstore crawl
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
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
Her first book âTwo Mindsâ is a collection of nearly 50 poems dedicated to her...
Biblioracle: What is happiness? A slim new book from Adam Gopnik has an answer
When I saw the title, the song âHappinessâ from the musical âYouâre a Good Man,...
Column: As ‘Tortured Poets Department’ arrives, we wondered: Can Taylor Swift be poetry?
It goes back to debates about Dylan â actually much earlier. It has special roots...
Growing idea: Libraries repurpose card catalogs for garden seed exchanges
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
The story is told by Mark Twain's character of Jim. âI think people assume because...
Times change, but City News Cafe stays the course as the place with thousands of magazines
The store often attracts customers from nearby states such as Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa.
Biblioracle: John Barth dies at 93 â his books pulled stories apart
I first picked up the postmodern novelist's âLost in the Funhouseâ and I've never read...