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Eat Feed Autumn Winter (Stewart Tabori & Chang, $35) by Anne Bramley What it is: Anne Bramley — a native Midwesterner, University of Chicago grad, host of the popular food-culture podcast Eat Feed (eatfeed.com), and an English lit professor with...

'Eat Feed Autumn Winter' By Anne Bramley (Stewart Tabori & Chang, $35) What it is: Anne Bramley -- a native Midwesterner, University of Chicago grad, host of the popular food-culture podcast Eat Feed (eatfeed.com), and an English lit professor with a...

Tony-award-winning actress Rondi Reed, who hails from tiny Dixon, Ill., has been with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company for nearly 30 years. Acting has taken her around the world, and this month she is traveling to London with Steppenwolf to reprise...

In the upper right-hand corner of certain pages in my copy of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Notes From Underground" (1864), you will find dime-size stains of a curious orange-yellow hue. The provenance of this tattoo is unmistakable: Cheetos. The volume thus...

Anonymity A Secret History of English Literature John Mullan Princeton University Press: 374 pp., $22.95 Author interviews and signing tours have become a chief element in bookselling. If not by their covers, today's books are known by their jacket...

Did you know that the ladies of Williamsburg were not considered "handsome" in 1777? Heartbreaking, but true -- at least according to Ebenezer Hazard. He was a New York bookseller who wrote about his experience here while visiting. In a retrospective...

Although most human primates have a keen sense of rivalry, males between 30 and 40 exhibit an especially potent brand of jealousy. Bad decisions have taken lifetime root and stoic self-acceptance has yet to provide the cheerfully numbing effect that comes...