Elizabeth Taylor

Chicago is a city that accommodates patriotism and dissent. These two forces have sometimes been at odds, but ultimately they both have managed to thrive. Rick Kogan's story about Caroline...

City Hall is just 200 miles from the state Capitol, but Springfield seems like a foreign country to us city slickers. In this week's Magazine, we report from a wild,...

What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World By M.L. Rossi Plume, 382 pages, $14 paper From the Aum Shinri Kyo cult--responsible for unleashing sarin gas in...

The Wapshot Scandal By John Cheever, foreword by Dave Eggers HarperPerennial, 320 pages, $12.95 paper In these days of corked bats and Martha Stewart, this sequel to the better-known "The...

A labor and delivery room is always full of surprises, but who knew that the maternity ward of Northwestern Memorial Hospital would be so full of drama when Gillian Darlow's...

Sweetwater By Roxana Robinson Random House, 319 pages, $24.95 Roxana Robinson locates this wonderful novel in the Adirondacks one summer when a recently widowed environmentalist vacations with her new in-laws....

It may be a central tenet of the Hippocratic oath but there is dispute about the origins of the familiar phrase Primum non nocere or "First, do no harm." Some...

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People By Toby Young Da Capo, 340 pages, $14.95 paper You don't have to be a media junkie to enjoy this book, but a...

Summer comes early for those of us at the Magazine. Before we sign up for day camp, map out travel arrangements to see the relatives or begin dieting for the...

Two decades ago, world headlines focused on a lawless El Salvador when four North American churchwomen were brutally murdered by soldiers. The reverberations of that reign of terror are still...