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Review: ‘The Vintage Tea Party Year’ by Angel Adoree

May 9, 2019 at 3:55 p.m.

When I was in my 20s, I took magazines literally. I'd spend hours with Gourmet magazine, concocting trifles requiring an architect's precision, fussing over whether jam-filled cakes were lined up...

Review: ‘Dreams of Duneland’ by Kenneth J. Schoon

May 9, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

When I picked up "Dreams of Duneland: A Pictorial History of the Indiana Dunes Region," I mistook it for the sort of quick-hit picture book a local Chamber of Commerce...

Review: ‘Swimmy’ by Leo Lionni

May 9, 2019 at 3:53 p.m.

Long before Nemo, there was Swimmy. And Swimmy, the little black fish who was orphaned when a swift and fierce tuna gobbled up all the little red fish who lived...

Review: ‘Swimmy’ by Leo Lionni

December 24, 2018 at 2:51 a.m.

Long before Nemo, there was Swimmy. And Swimmy, the little black fish who was orphaned when a swift and fierce tuna gobbled up all the little red fish who lived...

Garry Winogrand and William Klein provide snapshots of 20th century culture

May 9, 2019 at 3:52 p.m.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art earlier this year mounted a major retrospective of Garry Winogrand's work, a sweeping photographic chronicle that offers a glimpse of American character from...

‘Tiny Pie’ hits the spot

June 18, 2018 at 8:56 p.m.

'Tiny Pie" by Mark Bailey and Michael Oatman first caught our eye when my colleague Pam Becker pointed out Edward Hemingway's witty illustration of the grown-up party on Elephant Lane...

Five books: Graphic novelists at Lit Fest

May 9, 2019 at 3:50 p.m.

Art Spiegelman, author of "Maus," a Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir that essentially legitimized cartooning as a literary form, will kick off this year's Printers Row Lit Fest on Saturday, June 8,...

Book and bargain lovers crowd the 28th Annual Printer's Row Lit Fest booths, Sunday, June 10, 2012 in Chicago.

Five books: local crime authors appearing at Lit Fest

May 9, 2019 at 3:49 p.m.

In "The Devil's Dictionary," Ambrose Bierce wrote, "There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he...

Review: “The Civil War in 50 Objects” by Harold Holzer and the New-York Historical Society

May 9, 2019 at 3:49 p.m.

"Slave Shackles Intended for a Child, ca. 1800" The caption for the first image in "The Civil War in 50 Objects" will stop a reader cold, but the photo of...

Kevin Powers talks war, writing and ‘The Yellow Birds’

May 9, 2019 at 3:48 p.m.

Kevin Powers was 17 when he joined the U.S. Army. It was 1998: Sept. 11 was still three years away, and war didn't seem a likely possibility. He was following...

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