Elizabeth Taylor

We hear a lot these days about the road to the White House. This road seems to conjure up images of rubbery chicken dinners, shaking hands and campaign buses. But...

How to be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work By Megan Hustad Houghton Mifflin, 232 pages, $19.95 "Make yourself useful," my mother frequently admonished, so this title caught...

What happens when you take the sex out of sex education? Welcome to the world of abstinence education, where the lesson plan is simple: No sex until marriage. This hardline...

Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression By Mildred Armstrong Kalish Bantam, 292 pages, $12 paper I do have the spring sniffles,...

Golf surely has its allures. Many of us have savored every minute of its sporty camaraderie. Ah, the feel of fuzzy green Astroturf, those cute little windmills and tiny bridges....

Unaccustomed Earth By Jhumpa Lahiri Knopf, 333 pages, $25 This collection of eight stories by Jhumpa Lahiri follows her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection -- and first book -- "Interpreter of Maladies"...

The "lawyers" on the cover are no match for the two gentlemen featured in the photograph above. Besides its brilliance and wit, this week's cover story, "Two lawyers walk into...

The Best American Short Stories of the Century Edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison Houghton Mifflin, 835 pages, $19.95 paper Literary anthologies are often wonderful reflections of a specific...

In his 32 years as a music critic, Howard Reich has seen a lot of miraculous performances, but when he saw Rachel Barton Pine take to the stage recently in...

Transit Maps of the World By Mark Ovenden, edited by Mike Ashworth Penguin, 144 pages, $25 Those Brits have such quirky, fascinating ways of looking at the world. Billed on...