Jane Hamilton

Tribune reporter Colleen Mastony began reporting this story two days after the shooting. She spent weeks in the Rice Lake area and in St. Paul, where Chai Vang lived. She interviewed Vang, his family and friends, as well as the two survivors, Terry...

Alice McDermott hasn't lived on Long Island since the year after she graduated college, when she worked in Manhattan and lived at home in Elmont with her parents. Then her parents retired to Florida, and McDermott moved on to graduate school in New...

This is the week that Chicago has set aside to discuss "To Kill a Mockingbird," the book designated last summer as the first work to be read by the entire population of the city (and suburbs) as a shared intellectual exercise. The Harper Lee classic...

In sweeps, size matters. The ratings periods are all about drawing the biggest crowds to shows hyped as events. Although few programs warrant the buildup, broadcast executives merrily brag about their results anyway. Ultimately, the four-week sweeps...

SEE CORRECTION APPENDED When you're reading Chekhov, author-illustrator Edward Gorey once said, you wonder why you read anyone else. Michael Cacoyannis' new film of the great Russian writer's final masterpiece, "The Cherry Orchard," illustrates what...

Friday December 3, 1999      The title of the powerful "A Map of the World" refers to a drawing a child makes to try to grasp where her dying mother might be going. Now as an adult, Sigourney Weaver's Alice Goodwin finds herself heading into uncharted...