advertisement

Log Out

Literature

Book celebrates the 50th anniversary of 'Grease'

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer
Jun 06, 2022 1:00 am - NEW YORK - On Valentine's Day 1972, a musical opened off-Broadway needing a lot of love. It was already $20,000 in debt and the reviews were mixed to poor. A decision h...
Constable: Real Civil War hero inspires LGBTQ+ novel for writer from Naperville

By Burt Constable
Jun 04, 2022 1:00 am - As a young volunteer re-enactor at Naper Settlement, Michael Leali was comfortable identifying as a 19th-century boy. He carried his haversack, which contained essential...
Review: Grisham shortens things up in 'Sparring Partners'

By ROB MERRILL
May 31, 2022 7:00 am - 'œSparring Partners'ť by John Grisham (Doubleday) Since bursting on the scene with the runaway hit 'œA Time to Kill'ť in 1989, John Grisham has been one of the most reli...
Review: 'Happy-Go-Lucky,' an amusing look at life's ironies

By ANITA SNOW
May 31, 2022 7:00 am - 'œHappy-Go-Lucky,'ť by David Sedaris (Little, Brown and Company) Almost everyone has a dysfunctional family, but few expose their relatives' funny, embarrassing and even...
Review: '~The Latecomer' skewers wealth and privilege

By ROB MERRILL
May 31, 2022 7:00 am - 'œThe Latecomer'ť by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Celadon Books) Wealthy, dysfunctional families are so common in novels that it's easy to dismiss books centered around them. Do...
Review: Crime thriller debut well executed in 'The Favor'

By DONNA EDWARDS
May 31, 2022 7:00 am - 'œThe Favor'ť by Nora Murphy (Minotaur) Leah and Liam Dawson are lawyers. McKenna and Zack Hawkins are doctors. Or at least, Leah was a lawyer. And McKenna was a doctor....
Book review: 'Team America' plumbs enduring impact of 4 generals

By Douglass K. Daniel Associated Press
May 30, 2022 6:00 am - "Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged" by Robert L. O'Connell (Harper) Insightful and informative, military h...
A good man: Exhibits honor 'Peanuts' creator Schulz on 100th

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press
May 30, 2022 6:00 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio - In a series of "Peanuts" comic strips that ran in mid-April of 1956, Charlie Brown grasps the string of his kite, which was stuck in what came to be kno...
Besties and former 'The Office' co-stars write on friendship

By Alicia Rancilio Associated Press
May 29, 2022 7:30 am - NEW YORK - Spoiler alert: Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey obviously knew how "The Office" ended its nine-year run on NBC, because, after all, they filmed it - but revisi...
Book review: 'Either/Or' is Elif Batuman's sequel to 'The Idiot'

By Ann Levin Associated Press
May 27, 2022 11:00 pm - “Either/Or” by Elif Batuman (Penguin Press) Do you remember what it felt like to be a college sophomore? The Jell-O shots, cookie dough and moments of ab...

Showing 671-680 of 5,748 previous next