Elizabeth Taylor

Granta/101 Edited by Jason Cowley Granta USA, 286 pages, $16.99 paper The engaging British quarterly of new writing has a new look for its 101st issue -- and it pleases...

My taste in humor runs to the wicked wit of Larry David, who helped create and steer Jerry Seinfeld's television series and who has redefined humor with his own cable...

Olive Kitteridge By Elizabeth Strout Random House, 270 pages, $25 These 13 tales are bound together into an affecting story with Olive, a retired schoolteacher, at its center. With an...

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life," declared Samuel Johnson more than two centuries ago. Tom Hundley may not have tired of London-or the 18...

The Girl on the Fridge By Etgar Keret Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 171 pages, $12 paper There is a tradition of great dystopic fiction -- Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"...

After weeks on the takeout family meal plan, I finally broke down and Googled "oven" in search of a replacement. "Your children are better off eating out," grumbled Rick Kogan,...

The House on Fortune Street By Margot Livesey Harper, 311 pages, $24.95 Friends with wonderful taste have raved about Margot Livesey's novels for years. This is the sixth novel by...

Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck gettin' dirty 'n gritty Been down, isn't it a pity Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city All...

The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes By the editors of McSweeney's, introduction by John Hodgman Vintage, 217 pages, $12.95 paper Hard times call for good humor. This collection of...

For weeks before disaster placed Myanmar, formerly Burma, on the international map, Tribune reporter Colleen Mastony probably was one of the few people who could locate the country. By the...