Patrick T. Reardon

On Saturday at the Old State Capitol in Springfield many political watchers expect Sen. Barack Obama to make a big announcement --that he will officially declare he's running for president....

HarperCollins reportedly paid a $1 million advance to Vikram Chandra for the U.S. rights to his sprawling, multilayered novel "Sacred Games," expecting high critical praise. But, also, expecting strong sales...

On Friday, Oprah Winfrey announced actor Sidney Poitier's memoir, "The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography," as her 56th book club selection. Here are comments about the book when...

OCT. 4 "Pointing out the wrongs of the Right: In a new wave of books, authors take a critical look at conservative Christians' role in U.S. politics" True, Republicans lost...

JULY 7 "Ethiopian publisher is looking for simple, noble, human stories" Since being profiled in Tempo, it has been a busy six months for Fassil Yirgu, owner of Chicago-based Nyala...

MARCH 8 "Non-fiction book prize may boost fortunes of small Illinois publisher" Illinois' loss, it turns out, isn't a loss after all. Over the summer, Dalkey Archive Press, the small...

AUG. 25 Built to razz: The Chicago area's ugliest buildings Chalk one up for beauty! The Metra station, east of Michigan Avenue and north of Roosevelt Road, isn't long for...

Q. How did copies of "The Iraq Study Group Report" get to bookstores at the same time that the document was released last week in Washington? A. Following a process...

If history repeats itself, Rev. Jesse Jackson has again turned to one of his most used forms of activism: the boycott. Earlier this week, he called for consumers to leave...

Jewish music encompasses practically every imaginable genre, from the symphonies of Leonard Bernstein to the Hebraic works of Ernest Bloch to the classics of George Gershwin. But perhaps none of...