Elizabeth Taylor

The Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, . . . and Everything Else in the World Since 1953 Introduction by George Plimpton Picador, 751 pages, $30 This anthology...

Steven Brill is one of those rare characters who travel easily between worlds that are often at odds and are highly influential in all of them. As a best-selling author,...

The Bridge By Gay Talese Walker, 161 pages, $14 paper "A great bridge is a poetic construction of enduring beauty and utility," Gay Talese writes in the preface to this...

"Gardening is not a rational act," the great Canadian writer Margaret Atwood once wrote. "What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which...

Best of Young British Novelists 2003 Introduced by Ian Jack Granta, 350 pages, $14.95 paper In 1983, the literary quarterly Granta devoted a book to selections from what it called...

Most of the subjects who appear on our cover initially freeze in fear when a camera is in the vicinity. Part of the photographers' job is to coax and cajole...

Bottom of the Ninth: Great Contemporary Baseball Short Stories Edited and with an introduction by John McNally, foreword by Richard Russo Southern Illinois University Press, 256 pages, $50, $18 paper...

High-achieving scholars and star athletes are the high school students who enjoy heaps of enthusiastic support from classmates and affirmation from authority figures. Another sort of student, however, captured the...

"Art," Tony Fitzpatrick said one day, "is something that makes the mundane livable." And what could be more mundane than the ubiquitous pigeon? Well, this week, the mundane is transformed...

Fires in the Bathroom By Kathleen Cushman and the students of What Kids Can Do, Inc.; introduction by Lisa Delpit New Press, 204 pages, $24.95 This book turns the student-teacher...