Elizabeth Taylor

More often than not, it seems that talk between people these days is a mutual exchange of schedules. Intimate conversation is replaced by complaints about stress. The dilemmas inspired by...

Boxing brings out the best in sportswriting. Think Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer. Joyce Carol Oates, in her essay "On Boxing," explored the idea that the sport is an...

Magazine writer Don Terry was on the campaign trail with Senate candidate Barack Obama when he found himself at the Liberty Baptist Church for a news conference about AIDS. Don...

This week's cover story, "The Scholar and the Heiress," stretches back to a 700-year-old document, the Zohar, but also has roots in Albany Park, where a melange of garlic, snuff...

This week we publish a farewell column from our retiring food and wine columnist, William Rice. To honor Bill, I turn to James Warren, the Tribune's deputy managing editor/features, who...

Granta 84: Over There: How America Sees the World Edited by Ian Jack After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Granta, a quarterly magazine of new fiction, memoir, reporting...

One hundred years ago, Anton Chekhov wrote "The Cherry Orchard," the Japanese attacked a Russian fleet and began the Russo-Japanese War, and the Summer Olympic Games were held in St....

This week's cover story began one Saturday last April when reporter Rick Jervis was working the Saturday shift. Ten days earlier, a farmer had found the remains of a child...

Hope Dies Last By Studs Terkel New Press, 326 pages, $25.95 At 91, Studs Terkel has given us one of his greatest books yet. Earlier books focused on the oral...

"Whistleblower--An employee who refuses to engage in and/or reports illegal or wrongful activities of his employer or fellow employees." --Black's Law Dictionary Whistleblowers are hot. Sherron Watkins of Enron, Cynthia...