Elizabeth Taylor

Nixonland By Rick Perlstein Scribner, 881 pages, $37.50 Breezy is not a word usually associated with a book this size, but Rick Perlstein's passion, conversational tone and eye for irony...

Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs From The Hudson Review Edited by Paula Deitz (this name as published has been corrected in this text), introduction by Dean Flower Ivan...

"Serendipity rules," Julia Keller says when asked to explain how a machine gun came to strike her fancy. She might live by those words, but there isn't anything desultory about...

Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future By Newton N. Minow and Craig L. LaMay University of Chicago Press, 219 pages, $22.50 As the primary season draws...

Right in Front of Us: Forty-Seven Stories Written by Chicago High School Students Foreword by Alex Kotlowitz 826CHI Books, 228 pages, $12 paper Sampson the dog, Pancho the cat and...

Sunday might be a day of rest for most people, but for photographer Stacey Wescott, it is the middle of the workweek--and not because, in a phrase that bears repetition...

Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian By Scott Douglas Da Capo, 330 pages $25 With this week's summer reading recommendations from librarians, one wonders: Who are these characters? In...

With the delight of a child approaching a dandelion, Blue Balliett blew air on the "Red Petals" Alexander Calder mobile in the Arts Club of Chicago, her eyes twinkling as...

We worked on this week's Gardens & Homes issue over the course of the past year, and in full earnest during some of the bitterest parts of our long winter....

The Time of My Life Edited by Rob Spillman Flying Dolphin/Broadway, 219 pages, $13 Limousines, orchids, bad tuxedos and skimpy (but long) pastel dresses abound. Movies like "Pretty in Pink"...