Elizabeth Taylor

"The Tyranny of E-Mail: The Four Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox" By John Freeman Scribner 256 pages $25 E-mail is eating us alive, as John Freeman explains in the...

"Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements" By Dwight Garner, foreword by Dave Eggers Ecco/HarperCollins, 272 pages, $26.96 This was a great idea for a book -- especially...

When I agreed to answer it, the question seemed simple enough: What were the two best books of the year? Well, it turns out that the answer is not that...

"Yours Ever: People and Their Letters" By Thomas Mallon Pantheon, 356 pages $29.95 The audience for this book may be small, but it is polite and well-educated. Thomas Mallon realizes...

"Memoir: A History" By Ben Yagoda Riverhead, 304 pages, $25.96 As a memoirist, is Sarah Palin closer to St. Augustine or James Frey? Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" may be a...