Join us for a release event with writer and visual artist August Lamm, discussing her new book YOU DON’T NEED A SMARTPHONE.

Elizabeth Wellington Rollins, author of 'The Three Graces of Pearl Street,' shares her picks for the best books to read this Mother's Day. See the full list here.

Award-winning author and world-renowned mountaineer Jon Krakauer tells PEOPLE that looking back on the events that transpired on Mount Everest during the 1996 expedition that ultimately ended in disas...

A new anthology of dark fiction arriving in August 2026.

I’ve had the immense pleasure of student teaching English Language Arts at Memorial High School over the past few months. Every day, I learn immensely from my students, and talking about literature wi...

by Michael Antman “Chicago lives in and on my body in ways I'll never be able to explain, no matter how many words I learn, how many dictionaries and encyclopedias I read. And I'm good with that. To b...

In 2025, we were surviving, if perhaps not always thriving. We sang along to “Golden” in the grocery store and hung Labubus from our bags. We reheated nachos. We saw Sinners in multiple…

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Welcome to Books We've Loved, a new limited series from Book of The Day. Every episode, we will dig into some of our favorite books, to make the case for picking up a book from the past. Hosted by Boo...

Insights on Austin's Yogurt Shop murders and a special report on safety in Rundberg.

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Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel, 'Lolita,' was published 70 years ago on Sept. 15, 1955. Claire Messud, who writes the introduction to a new anniversary edition of the book, speaks with PEOPLE ...

Book 56: The El, by Theodore Van Alst, Jr. First, this is my favorite cover of any book I’ve read this year. Pure art! Secondly, this book isn’t so bad either. Capturing a day in the life of a gang ...

Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.'s “The El” is a lively, poetic novel about finding beauty in unexpected places, about seeing things that others don’t see, and seeking love outside of the family of your birth...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, the controversial novel about a man's relationship with a 12-year-old girl. Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr! discusse...

The El, by Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., is a semi-autobiographical novel set over the course of one scorching day in Chicago, August 1979.

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In “Sloppy,” Rax King writes about her years stripping, shoplifting and screwing up. She led us through the highlights of Washington vice.

There have been a few great covers for Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. There have also been a lot of bad ones. It makes sense: it’s a difficult book to represent—which means that when it&#82…

Edward Said brought the question of Palestine into the American mainstream. He taught at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, and today, more than two decades after his death, pro-Palestine studen...

Poet and novelist Sandra Cisneros’ most famous book is “The House on Mango Street,” a story of a Chicago childhood that has sold more than seven million copies. Cisneros has again fallen in love with ...

The National Book Award finalist talks about Portis's appeal as the “patron saint of journalists who become novelists” and the National Book Critics Circle Award winner discusses Salter's “breathtakin...