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Which should it be? Quoting from the guy who asked this question: “Tales, facts, history, engineering, architecture, trivia... you name it. One book!”

Sapphire does not shy away from difficult subjects. In The Kid, the sequel to her 1996 novel Push, she again takes up the topic of childhood sexual abuse, and what happens when institutions that are supposed to protect children fail to do so. 

Columnist Mike Royko thought renaming a street would be a worthy tribute to his friend Nelson Algren. He didn't reckon with the neighborhood vigilantes.

Chicagoland native Jami Attenberg sets her fourth novel in her home town. We chat with her on the eve of her reading here. 

Novelist Don DeLillo says some of his densest, most complex tomes have been inspired by viewing a single painting or photograph.  

100 years ago this month, Chicagoan Harriet Monroe published the first issue of Poetry magazine.

There are immense pleasures in our city’s tradition of reading together.