Ani Katz’s “Haven” is an exploration of power dynamics, surveillance, colonialism, toxic masculinity, and other big concepts.

Jarrett Dapier and A.J. Dungo’s “Wake Now in the Fire” recalls how high school students at Lane Tech College Prep immediately stood up against the ban on the book “Persepoli…

“Sirens in the Loop: A History of the City News Bureau of Chicago,” is not at all a textbook, but rather an intimate look at a time long gone.

Michael Silverblatt’s particular genius was not in what a novel or story said, but how it went about saying it.

Sometimes, I like to choose a book based upon a truly minimal amount of information, to just see a title, a cover, a single line of description and dive in.

On Feb. 21, 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published “The Communist Manifesto” in London.

“Free Chicago: 50 Years of the Reader” is a big, beautiful book that coincides, serendipitously, with the “rebirth” of the Chicago Reader itself.

Kyle Seibel writes about the overlooked, somewhat downtrodden, but not wholly defeated members of society.

A significant improvement project at the Hinsdale Public Library is scheduled to continue throughout the rest of the year.

Daisy Hernández’s new book, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth,” is partly a family memoir and partly a world history.

Daisy Hernández’s new book, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth,” is partly a family memoir and partly a world history.

Daisy Hernández’s new book, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth,” is partly a family memoir and partly a world history.

Long a neighborhood landmark, the Victorian home was an art project for its previous owners. Its new owners promised to keep it much as it was. Then HGTV came calling.

A gift from former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and his wife, the famous Saturday Evening Post cover is the museum’s first Rockwell painting.

Author and performer Nancy Hays first encountered his remarkable story in a small museum at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

Recognition, publication and financial awards are among prizes in competitions offered by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park.

Moraine Valley Community College professor Erik La Gattuta is displaying the first chapter of his new graphic novel at the college’s gallery.

In the years leading up to the Civil War, Lockport had become a fulcrum point for abolitionists, according to researcher Lindsey Minas.

As leader of the nonprofit devoted to fundraising for the Chicago Public Library, she put her lifelong commitment to books and reading to work.

Representation in children’s books is important, said Roy Kinsey, a librarian and rapper whose book “Deangelo and the Dandelion” tells the story of a queer Black youngster from Ch…