Elizabeth Taylor

The creative character on the cover of this week's Magazine should seem oddly familiar to faithful readers--even though immediate recall of his name might elude most of us. Kevin Coval...

Chicago: City on the Move By Michael Williams, Richard Cahan and Bruce Moffatt, foreword by Stuart Dybek Cityfiles Press, 256 pages, $39.95 Ever since Sister Carrie disembarked from the train,...

Mark Caro first interviewed John Cusack a decade ago, when the actor was starring in "Grosse Pointe Blank," a film he co-wrote and produced with his Evanston friends. Reporter and...

Christi Parsons has spent more than a decade following the career of Dick Durbin. She began soon after moving to Springfield in 1995, when Durbin was a member of the...

The Best of Ogden Nash Edited by Linell Nash Smith Ivan R. Dee, 465 pages, $28.95 "The trouble with a kitten is/THAT/Eventually it becomes a/CAT." Even those of us inclined...

From her computer in Pittsburgh, Debbie Reaves typed up a note and attached a link: "Maybe you could write a story about this for the Tribune." She sent the e-mail...

Peter Sis sees the world differently, in words and pictures, and in his native Czech and English. He purposefully walks into the Arts Club in Chicago on a recent afternoon,...

Chicago's Nelson Algren Photos and text by Art Shay Seven Stories, 167 pages, $19.95 paper This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for the spirited collaboration of Chicago's writers and photographers. Artists rub...

How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life Foreword by Ray Suarez, afterword by Frank McCourt, edited by Tom Miller National Geographic, 267 pages, $16.95...

Theodore Dreiser's fictional Sister Carrie arrived by train, clasping her little yellow purse and a slip of paper with the Van Buren Street address to which she was headed. I...