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"Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars" (Aug. 2023) by Avi Loeb.

The future of the search for alien life is with Harvard’s Avi Loeb. He has plenty of critics.

January 8, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Avi Loeb leaned in, grabbed my hand and said, "Be as critical as you like." What, after all, was one more critic? He resembled a caricature of a scientist, his...

The Illinois Governor's Mansion is decorated for the holidays, Nov. 29, 2023, in Springfield. It was completed in 1855 after Democratic Gov. Joel Matteson found the previous executive residence, a smaller house just down the block from Lincoln's home, to be too small for a wife, seven children and a variety of visiting legislators.

The Governor’s Mansion in Springfield is all dressed for the holidays. It has always taken a fair amount of fa-la-la.

December 22, 2023 at 7:35 p.m.

The Governor's Mansion in Springfield looks lovely right now, at the holidays. If you happen to be near, swing by. It is, after all, the people's house, and if you...

Biographer Jonathan Eig, the author of King and other books, at his Chicago home, Dec. 12, 2023.

Chicagoan of the Year for Books: Every so often, a book comes along that changes everything. Enter Jonathan Eig and ‘King.’

December 19, 2023 at 5:04 p.m.

The Chicago literary world, every year, without fail, is good for a great book or two. Or three or four. But this year was so rich in memorable works by...

Sculptor Richard Hunt in his studio on Aug. 11, 2023.

Sculptor Richard Hunt, whose work made an outsize impression in Chicago and across the country, dies at 88

May 22, 2026 at 7:49 p.m.

Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt, whose abstract work includes the Ida B. Wells monument in Bronzeville and centerpieces at the Art Institute and in a Smithsonian museum, and whose art can...

Jon Ziomek, voluntario del mostrador de atención al cliente de Travelers Aid (Ayuda al Viajero), personaliza un mapa para un viajero en la Terminal 3. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Los mostradores de información del Aeropuerto O’Hare cuentan con voluntarios que lo han visto todo

April 15, 2024 at 3:37 p.m.

Las vacaciones son estresantes, pero podrían ser peores. Podrías trabajar en un aeropuerto. En uno de los aeropuertos más transitados del mundo. Gratis. Podrías trabajar gratis en un aeropuerto y...

Annual best books of the year, from left, "Whalefall" by Daniel Krauss, "Bride of the Tornado" by James Kennedy, "Lone Women" by Victor Lavalle, "King, A Life" by Jonathan Eig, "Biography of X" by Catherine Lacey, "The Deadline" by Jill Lepore, "The Parrot and the Igloo" by David Lipsky, "Small Mercie" by Dennis Lehane, "The Fruad" by Zadie Smith, "Chain-Gang All-Stars" by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyahu, "Monsters" by Claire Dederer and "Motherland" by Paula Ramón.

10 best books for 2023: Or make that 12, if you include a trio that shouldn’t work at all

December 11, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Imagine a holiday party, attended only by books. If it helps, give them little arms and legs. That's the way to think about the best books of the year. You've...

Barbara, left, and sister Jane Greer before attending a book tour for Rush lead vocalist Geddy Lee, Dec. 3, 2023, in Chicago.

Geddy Lee and the radical decency of Rush fans: Gathered in Chicago for one night only

December 6, 2023 at 5:30 a.m.

Geddy Lee — or rather, as his touching new memoir, "My Effin' Life," makes plain, the man born with so many family names, nicknames and colloquial derivations of names, his...

Chicago architect Ryan Chester's obsessive drawings of the Chicago River and its buildings have become an 11-foot accordion-style book from University of Chicago Press, Nov. 14, 2023.

He started sketching the Chicago River and just kept going. His 55-foot sketch of the city is now a book.

December 6, 2023 at 10:14 a.m.

"I can't stop," Ryan Chester said, seated in a window of the Wrigley Building, the south side of the Chicago Riverwalk stretching out before him, scattered with tourists and workers...

Roz Chast, the longtime New Yorker cartoonist is photographed at the Marriott in Naperville, Nov. 15, 2023.

Cartoonist Roz Chast explores the history of dreams in her new book ‘I Must Be Dreaming’

December 1, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.

The other day I met The New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast in a dream. We weren't on a cloud or walking through Italy or anything. It wasn't that kind of...

Three great artful gifts: "The New Brownies' Book," an update of a W.E.B. Du Bois classic for kids; the first major retrospective of Chicago artist Simone Leigh; and the latest Phaidon art survey "Latin American Artists."

Holiday books 2023: 50 books that make great gifts from hip hop histories to Christmas ghost stories

November 30, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

Stephen Nissenbaum, in his terrific 1997 history of the holiday season, "The Battle for Christmas," goes briefly in search of the very first advertisement for Christmas presents — the Yuletide...

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