Michael B. Jordan starred in the HBO adaptation of the novel.

Four years ago Sam Weller, a onetime New City staff writer who’d written a guidebook, Secret Chicago, was covering the midwest for Publishers Weekly and freelancing stories to the Tribune magazine. He ...

We can’t help but wonder if, just before literary genius Ray Bradbury died Tuesday night at age 91, a strange crowd appeared before him to decide if he should live or die. If our thought was odd, or ...