Literature
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Date With History's Oct. 7 program to focus on 'J.R.R. Tolkien and the World Wars'Oct 04, 2021 11:00 pm - The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park continues its acclaimed Date with History series with an online program featuring author Janet Brennan Croft. She will discuss...
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Review: Soyinka writes a crime thriller and political satire
Oct 04, 2021 7:00 am - 'œChronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth,'ť by Wole Soyinka (Pantheon) With 'œChronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth,'ť Nobel Prize w...
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Book review: Anthony Doerr dreams big with 'Cloud Cuckoo Land'
Oct 04, 2021 6:00 am - “Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) How do you follow up a Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction? If you're novelist Anthony Doerr (“All the...
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Book review: 'Voices' richly illustrates pandemic's impact on lives
Oct 03, 2021 7:30 am - "Voices From the Pandemic" by Eli Saslow (Doubleday) More than 18 months into the coronavirus pandemic, there's already been a bumper crop of books about...
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Book review: Anita Hill urges us all to battle gender violence
Oct 02, 2021 7:10 am - "Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence" by Anita Hill (Viking) Anita Hill didn't care if President Joe Biden apologized or not, but s...
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Wednesdays @ One kicks off Oct. 6 with 'The Essential Great Chicago Fire' authorSep 30, 2021 11:00 pm - The Norris Cultural Arts Center in St. Charles is launching its fall season of "Wednesdays @ One" events at 1 p.m. Oct. 6 when author William Pack presents a program bas...
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Constable: Traumatic life leads to healing journey for author from Elk GroveSep 30, 2021 5:00 am - The tumultuous engagement between Gabby Petito and fiance Brian Laundrie ended with her death in Grand Teton National Park, and it has some people wondering why she stay...
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Library kicks off One Book, One Northbrook with 'The Vanishing Half'Sep 29, 2021 1:00 am - The "One Book, One Northbrook" community read kicks off in October with live music, book discussions, lectures, and more throughout the month. Northbrook Public Library ...
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Review: Anita Hill urges us all to battle gender violence
Sep 28, 2021 7:00 am - 'œBelieving: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence'ť by Anita Hill (Viking) Anita Hill didn't care if President Joe Biden apologized or not, but she found his a...
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Review: Idolatry surrenders to humanity in new Lee biography
Sep 27, 2021 7:00 am - 'œRobert E. Lee: A Life'ť by Allen C. Guelzo (Knopf) Controversy over the equestrian memorial to Robert E. Lee on stately Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, was once...