For Erdrich, writing books is not about playing puppet master or even the act of creation — she writes to learn. Her latest book, “The Mighty Red,” was the latest iteration in this pedagogical writing ...

The Sebastiani Theatre event celebrates the release of a book about Ralph Metzner edited by his widow, Cathy Coleman, and Simon Warwick-Smith ...

This fall’s Lake Forest Reads selection, Remarkably Bright Creatures is author Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel, published by Harper Collins and first released in 2022.

Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date.

In this interview, author Tiana Smith discusses how her husband’s disability helped inspire her new romance novel, Mr. Nice ...

The McKinley Memorial Museum in Niles will host guest speaker, author and historian Heather Cole at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Pizza Hut’s beloved pro-reading program, Book It! turns 40 this month — with over 70 million kids eagerly participating since ...

National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo, turns 25 and finds itself in the midst of AI controversy.

Scott Hawkins just turned 55 and has lived for the past ten years about 40 minutes outside Atlanta — drive north “until you see cows,” he says. After a brief stint as a teacher, he’s worked in ...

The Kenyan author, who died in 2019, ruthlessly took down the clichés of writing about the continent. His work is as relevant ...

“America First” personifies the debate through its two principal antagonists: President Franklin Roosevelt and aviator Charles Lindbergh.