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New books are coming from Bravo's Jenni Pulos and Hollywood's Robert Wagner.

I knew I was in trouble when I heard myself say the words: 'Sometimes black people are too quick to play the race card, and I just don't understand it. Sometimes we overreact to stuff. Not everything is about racism.'

In “The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist,” a former BP employee sees globalization and the Internet as pushing more companies to social responsibility.

Researchers at Harvard University have come up with a way of printing a vascular system that would solve a major problem with 3-D printing of human tissue.

A new study involving blocks shows that 4-year-olds may actually solve some problems better than grown-ups do.

Historian Amanda Foreman looks back at soothsayers over the centuries, from the fault in Julius Caesar's stars to an epic hoax by Jonathan Swift.

Renaissance woodcuts from Georg Baselitz's collection are on view at London's Royal Academy.

With 'Blood Will Out,' Kirn questions the motives of his subject. And his own. In 1998, Walter Kirn agreed to drive a crippled dog from Montana to New York as a favor to a man he had never met: Clark Rockefeller.

An appreciation for Sherwood Anderson and his work's lasting influenceThere's not much to see on the northeast corner of Wabash and Superior in downtown Chicago these days. Just a fenced-in private parking lot threatening, UNAUTHORIZED VEHICLES WILL BE TOWED. But that sign should be replaced with a plaque, because 100 years ago, on that very site stood an apartment building where one of the most influential books of the 20th century was written: "Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson.

Storms at sea play a key role in the tale of John Jacob Astor's attempt to establish a pivotal trading center on the unsettled, little-known northern Pacific Coast in the early 19th century. Yet few modern readers have ever been in a fragile wooden sailing ship during a storm on the ocean, especially with its sails unfurled.

25 years after Tiananmen Square, Li publishes an allegorical novel about the dangers of passivitySilence poisons. The past ensnares. Lives linked by tragedy — time and distance be damned — cannot be untangled.

Skokie resident has different take on classic 'Sleeping Beauty' taleLike the heroine in her new novel, Elizabeth Blackwell is not the sort of person about whom stories are told. A veteran freelance writer, she is usually the one telling the stories. But this may be about to change with the publication of her third and most ambitious novel, "While Beauty Slept," a new take on "Sleeping Beauty."

One afternoon, many years ago, I was on my way to the movies when I passed a guy selling books on the street. As I scanned his wares, which were neatly displayed on a blanket spread out on the sidewalk, I soon realized that all the novels were by authors whose names began with V.

Book news about Dave Barry, Wally Lamb, Pat Summit and other authors.