Your weekly guide to Chicago Tribune's favorites in books, authors and events
|  Monday, Mar 26 Meg Wolitzer's latest aims high, merging two subjects: young people growing to adulthood, and women's changing lives after second-wave feminism. |
| Fifty years after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, "The Promise and the Dream" by David Margolick explores the two civil rights leaders' legacies. |
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| In his new book, "Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion," historian Steve Fraser explores the notion of class as a power that has shaped our nation but is only lately being openly acknowledged. |
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| The title's triple parentheses - known as an echo - are an anti-Semitic symbol used to highlight Jewish names, adopted by the alt-right to hunt down potential targets on Twitter and subsequently appropriated by many Jewish users as a defiant response. |
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| Biblioracle columnist John Warner explores tsundoku — the act of letting books pile up without reading them — and why it's not such a bad thing. |
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| 'Try Not to Suck,' a biography of Joe Maddon by Bill Chastain and Jesse Rogers; "Tinkers to Evers to Chance" by David Rapp; and "Basketball: Great Writing About America's Game" from the Library of America. |
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| The past week was a good one for picture books about rabbits, specifically Marlon Bundo. |
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| The challenge of being a writer and showrunner is the focus of two new nonfiction books. But each only briefly acknowledges it's tougher for women of color. |
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