This time of year, so many of us are cozying up and telling terrifying tales around a bonfire and rewatching classic movies ...

A guide to the Chicago Reader's October 17, 2024 issue, devoted to spookiness, the Occult, and more, with a magic spell for you to try.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Waiting by Michael Connelly and By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult.

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.” Penned by legendary playwright, William Shakespeare, this ...

The subtitle of “The Long Lost Friend” goes on to describe the book as “a true and Christian set of instructions for everyone ...

Whether you’re sipping pumpkin spice lattes, rewatching Practical Magic for the millionth time, carving jack-o-lanterns or ...

We’ve completely retested and revamped our picks for book subscription boxes to include something for every kind of reader and a couple excellent clubs for kids. September 2024 Whether you’re ...

We scoured countless catalogues for fall’s best new books, reading everything we could get our hands on, courtesy of publishers from coast to coast. If your reading appetites are as omnivorous as ours ...

From a preteen demigod in 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' to an alternate-dimension conspiracy in 'Stranger Things', here ...

There's something for every kind of reader in the fall 2024 slate of new book releases. A deluge of spell-bounding and exhilarating reads are incoming this season, and they're all waiting to join ...

Novels by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Jean Hanff Korelitz; nonfiction by Ina Garten, Alexei Navalny and Ta-Nehisi Coates; Sapphic horror and more. Credit...The New York Times Supported by A coming-of ...