A deeply religious Arlington Heights housewife with five kids, Joan Wester Anderson hung a clothesline in the Kroch's & Brentano's bookstore at Randhurst Mall in Mount Prospect in 1976 to promote her ...

A flaming wheel covered in eyes! A chimera of wings and light! An unfathomably terrifying divine abomination paradoxically telling you “be not afraid!” While TikTok might try to say otherwise, these ...

A Shortage of Angels is set in 1986 in Onward, Texas, a fictional small town based on author Penny Pickle’s own hometown of Greenville, Texas. It tells the story of Cal, who lives with her mortician ...

Angels are becoming increasingly popular in religion and spiritual publishing with a slate of angel-centric fiction and nonfiction titles releasing in the coming months. The celestial beings, believed ...

Sophy Burnham is a respected Washington writer who, in the course of her career, has produced a couple of novels, some very good plays and two books about the art world and the major landowners in ...

An Arlington Heights author who rose to national fame and became known as the "angel lady" for her books about angels and miracles has died. Joan Marie Wester Anderson, 84, wrote more than two dozen ...

This post-apocalyptic story about zombies does not begin in a hospital or on an abandoned expressway. Therefore it's already special. The layouts and panels are simple, yet rough and lovely. There's a ...

A recent book by a Harvard graduate and former minor leaguer in the Los Angeles Angels system has several inaccuracies, according to a story in Tuesday's New York Times. Matt McCarthy has written a ...

If you don’t think angels have much of a role to play in your life other than to perch atop your yule tree or turn up in Christmas carols and Neil Sedaka songs, it might interest you to know that, ...

Small books don't necessarily have small ambitions. When I saw the unassuming title of Adam Gopnik's "Angels and Ages," subtitled "A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life," I was doubtful.