Elizabeth Taylor

"Best of the Web 2010" Kathy Fish, guest editor Matt Bell, series editor Dzanc Books, $18, 510 pages Reading, poetry and prose written for the Web calls for a different...

"Best of the Web 2010" Kathy Fish, guest editor Matt Bell, series editor Dzanc Books, $18, 510 pages Reading, poetry and prose written for the Web calls for a different...

"Mattaponi Queen: Stories" By Belle Boggs Graywolf Press, $15, 225 pages Eastern Virginia tributaries converge in these inter-connected stories largely set on the Mattaponi Indian Reservation, and they reflect that...

"Mattaponi Queen: Stories" By Belle Boggs Graywolf Press, $15, 225 pages Eastern Virginia tributaries converge in these inter-connected stories largely set on the Mattaponi Indian Reservation, and they reflect that...

"Demons in the Spring: Stories" By Joe Meno Akashic Books, $17.95, 269 pages Winner of the baiduhai's Nelson Algren Award for a short story in 2003, Joe Meno now...

"Demons in the Spring: Stories" By Joe Meno Akashic Books, $17.95, 269 pages Winner of the baiduhai's Nelson Algren Award for a short story in 2003, Joe Meno now...

The relationship of biographer and subject is a complicated one, especially when it spans more than two decades. Biographer Louise W. Knight began her study of Jane Addams when she...

"Read My Pins" By Madeline AlbrightHarper, 176 pages, $40 Jewelry isn't ordinarily a tool of political persuasion, but in this beautiful book, Madeleine Albright, American ambassador to the United Nations...

"The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them" By Elif Batuman Farrr Straus and Giroux, $25 (paper), 296 pages This book received an enthusiastic reception when...

"The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them" By Elif Batuman Farrr Straus and Giroux, $25 (paper), 296 pages This book received an enthusiastic reception when...