Books

  • Murder abroad: Crime fiction roundup features thrillers set in France, Italy and Spain

    Murder abroad: Crime fiction roundup features thrillers set in France, Italy and Spain

    “Murder on the Left Bank” by Cara Black, Soho Crime, 288 pages, $27.95 Continuing her marvelous mystery tour of Paris with her 18th Aimee Leduc mystery, Cara Black finally makes it to the Left Bank. Aimee swore off homicide cases after the murder of her father, a onetime cop from whom she inherited...

  • How other bookstores can learn from Lake Forest Book Store

    How other bookstores can learn from Lake Forest Book Store

    I had an unfortunately rare pleasure over the Memorial Day holiday: I visited a real bookstore. How can this be, O Biblioracle? you’re wondering. How could you not be spending hours upon hours in bookstores? I’ll tell you why: The town in which I live, Mount Pleasant, S.C., doesn’t have a bookstore....

  • Summer reading guide 2018

    Summer reading guide 2018

    I was paging through Matt Sewell’s delightful book “A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Wild Gatherings” recently, thinking it was just the sort of book that should should linger on nightstands during the summer months. It’s not so much a book to read as a book to page through, delighting in the play...

  • When a president exhibited empathy, honesty, humility and politeness

    When a president exhibited empathy, honesty, humility and politeness

    At times like the present, when our angry and polarized political discourse is stoked by a dark and divisive leader, it is useful to remember that we have survived such periods before. In 1954, after the excesses of Sen. Joe McCarthy were defused by the calm Dwight Eisenhower and the mainstream...

  • Illinois-native's book on fantastic beasts and those who find them

    Illinois-native's book on fantastic beasts and those who find them

    "We've already established that I did some silly things in high school, when my obsession with dinosaurs overtook my better judgment," writes paleontologist Steve Brusatte toward the end of his new book. He goes on to sketch his brassiest teenage move of all - picking up the phone one day in 1999...

  • Spies meet ghosts in wildly inventive 'Summerland,' plus more sci-fi reviews

    Spies meet ghosts in wildly inventive 'Summerland,' plus more sci-fi reviews

    “Summerland” by Hannu Rajaniemi, Tor, 304 pages, $25.99 Readers familiar with Hannu Rajaniemi's dense, information-packed futures in novels like “The Quantum Thief” will be surprised to find that his new novel is not only an espionage tale set in an alternate history version of 1930s England,...

  • New stories from Lauren Groff, who wrote President Obama's favorite novel in 2015

    New stories from Lauren Groff, who wrote President Obama's favorite novel in 2015

    Dangers lurk everywhere for the natives in "Florida," Lauren Groff's second story collection. There are alligators, panthers, snakes. Even on the most casual stroll through a gentrifying neighborhood, you need to watch out for the blistering heat, stray dogs that attack. Car-swallowing sinkholes...

  • Bill Clinton and James Patterson's 'The President Is Missing' is an awkward duet

    Bill Clinton and James Patterson's 'The President Is Missing' is an awkward duet

    Former president Bill Clinton and thriller writer James Patterson have teamed up to write a novel together, which for pure marketing genius would be like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Katy Perry releasing a duet. Terms of the Clinton-Patterson deal haven't been revealed, but it's no accident that in...

  • 6 great outdoor spots to read this summer in Chicago

    6 great outdoor spots to read this summer in Chicago

    When the temperature is high and the sun is shining, staying in to read your favorite book is just not an option. Below we offer six ideal reading retreats to soak up summer. Chicago Botanic Garden 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, 847-835-5440, www.chicagobotanic.org The Chicago Botanic Garden has...

  • Best bets at Printers Row Lit Fest

    Best bets at Printers Row Lit Fest

    Even in an era of memorably quirky fictional characters, the hero of Fredrik Backman’s “A Man Called Ove” stands out. The 59-year-old Swedish widower with a deep-seated distrust of technology and a passion for enforcing the rules at his residential community was a crank, yes, but a world-class...

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