Elizabeth Taylor

The Best American Short Stories 2008 Edited by Salman Rushdie Series Editor: Heidi Pitlor Houghton Mifflin, 358 pgs., $14 Those of us who have been reading the "Best American Short...

"Welcome home." After nearly two decades as a Tribune foreign correspondent, the phrase took on an importance for Tom Hundley, who recounts his stateside acclimation in this week's Magazine. Others...

The Lazarus Project By Aleksandar Hemon Riverhead, 304 pages, $24.95 Aleksandar Hemon's novel segues between the past and the present, reality and imagination. In 1908, Lazarus Auerbach, a teenage Eastern...

As annoying we may find Capone stories, Chicagoans love crime dramas. We delight in seeing ourselves in Scott Turow's Kindle County and Sarah Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski, an icon of Chicago...

The Duchess Originally published as "Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire" By Amanda Foreman Random House, 456 pages, $15.95 Princess Diana possessed star quality quite like her great-great-great-great aunt Georgiana, wife of...

The heart of our annual Women's Health issue is Jessica Reaves' profile of filmmaker Joanna Rudnick. It's a story that also guides us through the rapidly changing landscape of genetic...

Reading is often the most solitary of acts. But when we are moved by words on a page -- in a book, a magazine or a newspaper -- we are...

Our currency may be words and visual images, but this week we're trading in music. Songs of the road were the inspiration for this special Travel issue. Jessica Reaves, fresh...

More Information Than You Require By John Hodgman Dutton, $25 Even if you have seen John Hodgman as resident expert on the "The Daily Show" or appearing as the PC...

Square footage, SAT scores -- these are traditional yardsticks by which one measures things in life. Now there is another because, as the saying goes, you are what you eat....