Elizabeth Taylor

Tom Hundley has zig-zagged the world as a foreign correspondent -- through the Middle East and Europe, where he most recently was stationed in Rome and then London. But he...

Lark & Termite By Jayne Anne Phillips Knopf, 254 pages, $24 Jayne Anne Phillips captured my attention more than 25 years ago with the publication of her first novel, "Machine...

Together, the writers featured in this week's issue have worked at the Tribune for more than 80 years, yet they still get a kick out of Chicago. One of the...

Everything They Had: Sports Writing From David Halberstam Edited and with an Introduction by Glenn Stout Hyperion, 401 pages, $24.95 For those who prefer sports writing about sports -- and...

Things I've Been Silent About: Memories By Azar Nafisi Random House, 336 pages, $27 The author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" explores her family history against the backdrop of life...

2008. What a year. For our annual Pictures of the Year issue, we debate whether we want the best photographs, or pictures of the most memorable events of the year....

My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekov to Munro Edited by Jeffrey Eugenides Harper, 587 pages, $15 (paperback) "When it comes to love there are a million...

Elizabeth Alexander heard Martin Luther King deliver his famous "I Have a Dream" speech as a baby and now, grown up, she returns to Washington to deliver her own address...

One of memory's magical tricks is that when we return to the place we were raised, sometimes it feels like an ill-fitting suit. The question then is, have my dimensions...

Livability: Stories By Jon Raymond Bloomsbury, 272 pages, $15 (paper) This collection contains the short story upon which the movie "Wendy and Lucy" (starring Michelle Williams) is based. The nine...