Elizabeth Taylor

A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection Edited by Stacy Bierlein Foreword by Aimee Liu OV Books, 416 pages, $22.95 (paper) This anthology of short fiction,...

Think of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and their children. Or Meg Ryan. Or Madonna. It's hard to imagine an issue of People magazine without something about a celebrity adoption....

No, we did not borrow the man on this week's cover of the Magazine from GQ or a fine menswear ad. He is Brian McBride, an Arlington Heights dad --...

Nelson Algren won a National Book Award for "The Man with the Golden Arm" 50 years ago, at the first awards ceremony, and Chicago literature continues to attract attention for...

Breakfast at Tiffany's By Truman Capote Vintage, 178 pages, $12.95 (paperback) In "Breakfast at Tiffany's," the beguiling image of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly may have eclipsed the complex character...

"Culture is not national." -- James Cuno, of the art institute of chicago - - - When Tom Hundley was a young foreign correspondent in Jerusalem for the Tribune, he...

Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America By Jay Parini Doubleday, 385 pages, $24.95 There sure has been a lot of talk about change, but what about books that have...

In these days of economic uncertainty and financial instability, the temptation may be to hunker down at home, erect barricades and clip coupons. The pull to protect oneself, and loved...

Reputation: Portraits in Power By Marjorie Williams Edited by Timothy Noah PublicAffairs, 287 pages, $26.95 "Its credit system is proximity; its currency, information," wrote Marjorie Williams, in 1993. She was...

"We need stories. We need stories the way we need bread or water." -- David McCullough - - - In a city of grand places, few are as spectacular as...