Brooke Williams has always celebrated Harry Potter’s birthday — as a child, in college and even into adulthood. “(My friends and I) would just do it for ourselves at somebody’s house and have...

The Evanston Literary Festival will commence its fifth year of programming with dozens of events across the city, featuring local authors and writing workshops. The festival will open May 11, with the...

Nina Barrett (Medill ‘87) wants Northwestern students to find a literary haven in her bookstore, Bookends & Beginnings, but she knows how expensive books can be. Barrett hopes the store’s new used...

Evanston residents gathered in the back room of Bookends & Beginnings on Tuesday to enjoy wine and cheese and listen to a group of writers share their “literary appetizers,” or works in progress. Pam...

“Hamilton” may be the most successful work of theatre he has ever known, said Chris Jones, the Chicago Tribune chief theater critic. In his opinion, no other Broadway show has “entered the zeitgeist...