'Lost Chicago' explores city that once was

Nov. 29, 2012
John Paulett and Judy Floodstrand's new hardcover book explores architecture that is no longer with us, but also forgotten city ephemera like the three-wheeled motorcycles once used by Chicago police. 

'Terrorists In Love': The Psychology Of Extremism

Oct. 5, 2011
Ahmad Al Shayea grew up in Saudi Arabia in a middle-class family and dropped out of high school to join a local gang. Abdullah Al-Gilani fell in love with a girl who eventually married someone else.

'Awesome Man' Is Super, And Maybe You Are, Too

Sep. 25, 2011
Michael Chabon won a Pulitzer Prize for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay back in 2001. Ten years later, he has a new book out, called The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man.This one may sound like a sequel, but Chabon isn't after another Pulitzer.

'Confidence Men': Ron Suskind On White House Woes

Sep. 20, 2011
A new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind paints an unflattering picture of rivalries and dysfunction within President Obama's first economic team — rivalries that Suskind says then slowed the administration's response to the financial crisis.The book Confidence Men: Wall Stree

Thomas Friedman On 'How America Fell Behind'

Sep. 6, 2011
Back in March, Paul Otellini — president and CEO of Intel Corp. — compared the situation of present-day America to that of the U.K. at the turn of the last century."

High Price Of Blowing The Whistle On EPA

Sep. 6, 2011

Author Sara Paretsky tours Chicago for her next crime scene

Aug. 24, 2011
Controlling crime is a big part of Mayor Emanuel's agenda but Eight Forty-Eight wanted to turn to someone whose job is to create it - on the page that is. Crime writer Sara Paretsky and her fictional detective protagonist, V.I. Warshawski, both call Chicago home.

Searching For Black Utopia ... In Antarctica

Aug. 17, 2011
Mat Johnson's new book Pym is a modern-day sequel to Edgar Allen Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.Poe's 1838 novel is a sea-faring adventure where Pym and his crew land on an island, off the coast of Antarctica, populated only by black people.In an interview

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