Elizabeth Taylor

The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn From Each Other By Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Random House, 256 pages, $24.95 In this book by Harvard professor and MacArthur fellow Sara...

The Book Lover's Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature and the Passages That Feature Them By Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay Jensen Ballantine, 326 pages, $21.95 This...

This week's cover story grew out of a chance encounter last February in the Great American Bagel shop at O'Hare. Don Wycliff, public editor of the Tribune, and U. S....

When it seems like the world is no laughing matter, one might be well-advised to turn to the professionals. This week, Rick Kogan examines and reflects on the history of...

For many of us, entertaining means chili suppers or burgers on the grill, not fine dining a la Charlie Trotter. But that doesn't mean we can't borrow a few tips...

Me Decade. Social X-rays. Digibabble. These are some of the phrases coined by the man who graces our cover this week, "The curious Mr. Wolfe," whose powers of social observation...

President Kennedy Has Been Shot By the Newseum, with Cathy Trost and Susan Bennett, narrated by Dan Rather Sourcebooks, 256 pages, $29.95, with CD This package--a book and a CD--captures...

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam By Frances FitzGerald Back Bay, 500 pages, $16.95 paper Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and...

"I want an upbeat story next," groaned Magazine writer Don Terry, who has been spending the last few months writing about drug addicts, gang shootings and death-penalty issues. There seemed...

In our office shorthand, today's Magazine has come to be called "the goat issue." Even in a high-tech world where everything seems to be done by computer, we tack up...