Elizabeth Taylor

It's not an illusion. You haven't been waiting as long recently for a restaurant table. As we pinch pennies and watch waistlines, fewer of us have been eating out. Here...

How Lincoln Learned to Read Twelve Great Americans and the Educations that Made Them By Daniel Wolff Bloomsbury USA, 352 pages, $26 Learning is a mysterious miracle, and in this...

"Freakonomics," by "rogue economist" Steven Levitt, has been a best-seller, but these days world attention is focused on Obamanomics. Oddly -- or perhaps perfectly -- enough, both economic world views...

The Bishop's Daughter By Honor Moore Norton, 368 pages, $25.95 At the heart of this brave memoir is a daughter's attempt to understand how her father -- an internationally admired...

In this week's Magazine we peer into the homes of interior designers and disprove the notion that the children of cobblers may have holes in their shoes and doctors may...

Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story Symphony Space, Audio CD, $28 Short stories offer boundless opportunities, coming alive in multiple ways. Hearing, rather than reading, a wonderful story...

Bookstores are closing, people aren't reading. You've heard it all before. But is it possible that reading is changing -- that readers are changing? The rich world of comics and...

Wandering Stars By Sholem Aleichem Forward by Tony Kushner Translated from the Yiddish by Aliza Shevrin Viking, 425 pages, $29.95 "Fiddler on the Roof" may define Yiddish creativity in the...

As the nation twittered recently about the inauguration parties and balls, we felt at first like a dour old maid left at home. But we took care of ourselves: We...

The Hemingses of Monticello An American Family By Annette Gordon-Reed Norton, 797 pages, $35 Those Founding Fathers. It's always about them. In a book that is neither hagiography nor denunciation,...