Elizabeth Taylor

Till the Cows Come Home: County Fair Portraits By Dan Nelken Kehrer Verlag, 119 pages, $50 "There is a complex lyricism at work in this most commonplace social and agricultural...

In my hometown, the streets were all named after colleges. Harvard, Princeton and Yale were main streets. Only after leaving town for college, 300 miles north on the Amtrak corridor,...

Q. The word "frenzied" seems to be the most oft-used word in college admissions. Is that a mischaracterization? A. There are frenzied people, students and especially parents, who undoubtedly suffer...

Waiter Rant By The Waiter Ecco, 302 pages, $24.94 For four years, an anonymous waiter chronicled on the Internet the bad, ugly and occasionally decent behavior at a white-tablecloth restaurant...

One of the great ironies of political reporting is that when candidates are in the red-hot glare of the media, they are the most unknowable. Reporters wait patiently for a...

Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-new Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories Edited by Owen King and John McNally, illustrations by Chris Burnham Free Press, 417 pages, $16 paper For...

1/BITING Act of aggression or mark of frustration? Mindy's reign over the neighborhood went uncontested until I was 8. One afternoon that summer, I bit her. Hard--my teeth breaking the...

Contributors to this week's cover package of stories on hot-button issues in parenting consulted child development experts-and, of course, inevitably reflected on the advice doled out by their own parents....

Run By Ann Patchett HarperPerennial, 295 pages, $14.95 (paper) Step one: Grab sunscreen. Step two: Sit outside and read this novel, her first since "Bel Canto." It takes place in...

"Beat the heat with cool summer styles." A dollar for every headline like that would mean my own 34-foot sailboat on Lake Michigan. Ah, at least I have the boat...