Elizabeth Taylor

"Never better," replies a widely admired colleague here at the newspaper to a genial, routine request about his welfare. So many "How are yous" are met with grim eye-rolling and...

American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now Edited by Philip Lopate Library of America, 784 pages, $19.95 Who needs movies when there are movie critics? This anthology,...

Progress may have changed the weapons of war, but the human heart beats just the same. Those who fought in wars and returned home traumatized were described as "shell-shocked" or...

Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me Edited by Ben Karlin Grand Central, 224 pages, $23.99 Ben Karlin, former executive producer of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and...

History repeats itself, but rarely from such an interesting vantage point as the camera lens of Tribune photographer Scott Strazzante. This week, his photography essay "Another country" illuminates how the...

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure Edited by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith HarperPerennial, 225 pages, $12 paper The economy, precision and energy...

The coexistence of religion and science may be a fraught one, but this week's cover story, "The new theology," heads into new territory, one that replaces ardent opposition with a...

Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence From the Edge of Modern Romance Edited by Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter Free Press, 259 pages, $18 There are a few prominent, older writers...

Reporters may be proud of their bylines, but in truth, not many readers recognize their names. Most of us labor in obscurity, insistent that those whom we write about are...

White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006 By Donald Hall Mariner, 431 pages, $16.95 paper, includes CD In the footsteps of New Englanders Emily Dickinson and Robert...