Our columnist on the month’s best new books. By Alida Becker In “The Renoir Girls,” the English historian Catherine Ostler tells the beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking story of the ...

Matthew Taylor, a conceptual artist and political strategist, made influential ads and documentaries produced by Steve Bannon. Now he’s assisting the White House. By Zachary Small Charles Ross spent ...

Avon preempts S.J. Cristea’s debut romance about dogs and deities, Bloomsbury lands the first English-language Roberto Bolaño biography, and more.

June 23, 2026 • Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.

As the Chicago Public Library Foundation — a nonprofit established in 1986 as the fundraising ...