Patrick T. Reardon

Good mothers are all pretty much the same, but every bad mother is bad in her own way. From Snow White's evil stepmother (where'd she come up with that poison...

WHO: David Rosenberg, poet, essayist, critic and co-author (with Harold Bloom) of "The Book of J," which contended that one of the Bible's earliest authors was a woman. WHY: In...

WHO: Julia Alvarez, poet, essayist, children's book writer and author of highly acclaimed novels "In the Time of the Butterflies" and "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents." WHY: In...

Q. Twelve million copies of the hardcover version "The Da Vinci Code" are already in print in North America alone (and more than 40 million worldwide). Who's the market for...

Come Tuesday, all heaven's gonna break loose. The hotly anticipated paperback version of "The Da Vinci Code" -- the novel that wrings high drama and lowdown behavior out of church...

President Andrew Johnson didn't testify at his impeachment trial, and he got off. King Charles I of England didn't answer the charges against him -- and he lost his head....

After a budget deficit, attendance crisis and months of renovations that have kept its exhibits closed, the Chicago Historical Society hopes its grand new name -- the Chicago History Museum...

Oprah Winfrey's public evisceration of James Frey's literary reputation this week over the extensive fabrications in his memoir "A Million Little Pieces" changes the landscape of the U.S. publishing industry....

In a reversal of patronage for author James Frey's fallen memoir "A Million Little Pieces," Oprah Winfrey on Thursday apologized for the best seller on her book list, then lambasted...

Agents of change: Reinvent Chicago Lawn neighborhood? Si, se puede! Yes, we can! The reinvention of Chicago Lawn by the people who live there is starting to pick up speed....