Literature
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Ellison Cooper's 'Caged' punctuated with believable twists
Jul 09, 2018 7:00 am - "Caged" (Minotaur Books), by Ellison Cooper The FBI's hunt for a serial killer fuels Ellison Cooper's intense debut that introduces FBI special agent and neuroscientist ...
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'Carnival of Losses' is Hall's final volume of essays
Jul 09, 2018 7:00 am - "A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), by Donald Hall A few years ago, Donald Hall wrote a book called "Essays After Eighty" about the...
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Review: Anne Tyler's new novel is about second chances
Jul 09, 2018 7:00 am - "Clock Dance: a Novel" (Knopf), by Anne Tyler If you had to identify a single theme in Anne Tyler's latest novel, it would be the importance of creating a surrogate fami...
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Review: 'A Terrible Country' is a wonderful novel
Jul 09, 2018 7:00 am - "A Terrible Country: a Novel" (Viking), by Keith Gessen With the United States in an uproar about Russian meddling in its election, it's a good time to brush up on the c...
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Author events: Meet best-selling author Madeline Miller in NapervilleJul 08, 2018 7:28 am - W. Bruce Cameron: 2 p.m. Sunday, July 8, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville, (630) 355-2665, andersonsbookshop.com/. Meet the best-selling author ...
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Film favorites Sterling Hayden, Bruce Lee shine in new booksJul 07, 2018 7:00 am - “Bruce Lee: A Life” by Matthew Polly; Simon & Schuster; 656 pages “Sterling Hayden's Wars” by Lee Mandel; University Press of Mississippi; 368 pages Martial ar...
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Western-themed 'The Taming of the Shrew' in Geneva July 7Jul 02, 2018 11:00 pm - You would be hard pressed to think of two types of entertainment more different from an old TV Western broadcast on the tube and a Shakespeare play performed on the stag...
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Film favorites Bruce Lee, Sterling Hayden shine in new books
Jul 02, 2018 7:00 am - "Bruce Lee: A Life" (Simon & Schuster), by Matthew Polly, and "Sterling Hayden's Wars" (University Press of Mississippi), by Lee Mandel Martial arts icon Bruce Lee wante...
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Review: A sense of sadness permeates 'It All Falls Down'
Jul 02, 2018 7:00 am - "It All Falls Down" (William Morrow), by Sheena Kamal Canadian author Sheena Kamal continues to show how cultural touchstones reverberate into adulthood in her intriguin...
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Review: Dan Fesperman's 'Safe Houses' is superior thriller
Jul 02, 2018 7:00 am - "Safe Houses: a Novel" (Knopf), by Dan Fesperman In "Safe Houses," author Dan Fesperman superbly melds a character-strong espionage thriller with a suspenseful mystery t...