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Book Review: Deceit and desire await in White's new novel

By MOLLY SPRAYREGEN
Aug 5, 2020 1:55 PM - In a review of 'œA Saint from Texas' by Edmund White, Associated Press critic Molly Sprayregen writes that while the book contains artful prose, vivid storytelling, and a darkly whimsical tone
Book review: More supernatural horror from 'The Strain' writers

By Rob Merrill
Aug 5, 2020 6:00 AM - The writing team -- Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan -- behind "The Strain" trilogy is back with a new evil incarnate in "The Hollow Ones." This time it's more demonic than vampiric, possessing bodies and driving them to their deaths in all sorts of diabolical ways before exploding out of them in "ecstasy."
Review: More supernatural horror from '˜The Strain' writers

By ROB MERRILL
Aug 4, 2020 1:32 PM - Did you like 'œThe Strain' trilogy or the FX television series of the same name
Book review: Hank Phillippi Ryan teeters on the improbable in 'First to Lie'

By Bruce DeSilva
Aug 4, 2020 6:00 AM - The first liar we meet in Hank Phillippi Ryan's "First to Lie" is Nora, a pharmaceutical representative whose job is to push Monifan, a drug that can increase fertility in women who have difficulty conceiving. But Nora is secretly pursuing her own agenda. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Book Review: Hank Phillippi Ryan teeters on the improbable

By BRUCE DeSILVA
Aug 3, 2020 10:42 AM - Five-time Agatha Award Winner Hank Phillippi Ryan explores the consequences of deception in 'œThe First to Lie.'
Book review: A vet in training turns to a life of crime in 'Other People's Pets'

By Bethanne Patrick
Aug 2, 2020 7:27 AM - R.L. Maizes' "Other People's Pets," with its lively voice and unexpected characters, makes a perfect addition to anyone's summer reading pile, but it is required for those who understand that coming of age has absolutely nothing to do with age.
Book review: In Lauren Beukes's 'Afterland,' a mother and son go on the run in a post-pandemic America

By Maureen Corrigan
Aug 1, 2020 7:28 AM - Is dystopian fiction timely or just too much these days? Lauren Beukes' "Afterland" promised a descent into pandemic despair. But Beukes is such an idiosyncratic writer -- one who deftly mashes up suspense, sci-fi, horror, time travel, and, yes, dystopian fiction -- that she's hard to ignore.
Barrington's White House hosts virtual cultural events

Submitted by Village of Barrington
Jul 31, 2020 9:21 AM - Barrington's White House is presenting another slate of free cultural events for the online series, Virtual Arts and Culture.
Three books examine what it means to live with a disability in America

By Anna Leahy
Jul 30, 2020 6:00 AM - The 30th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act highlights the nation's progress in protecting people with physical and mental disabilities from discrimination. But the anniversary also raises profound issues surrounding what it means to be disabled in America and what needs to be done to further improve accessibility, as discussed in these three books.
Book review: Charlie Kaufman's debut novel, 'Antkind,' is just as loopy and clever as his movies

By Jake Cline
Jul 28, 2020 6:00 AM - A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon, Charlie Kaufman's loopy, loony, 720-page "Antkind" has in protagonist B. Rosenberger Rosenberg a contrarian whose tomatoes are always rotten. "Starbucks is the smart coffee for dumb people. It's the Christopher Nolan of coffee," he offers during one discursive rant.

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