Elizabeth Taylor

I to Myself: An Annotated Selection From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer Yale University Press, 493 pages, $35 Henry Thoreau's journal spanned 25 years...

Beautiful people. Gorgeous house. Fabulous art. Scrumptious food. Abundant beverage. This party possessed all the ingredients for another very lovely evening. Guests with very high IQs crowded into the living...

Writers Photos by Nancy Crampton, foreword by Mark Strand Quantuck Lane Press, 224 pages, $25 A delicious book, with the best saved for last: 12 shots of Studs Terkel. The...

If journalism is the rough draft of history, where does fiction fit into this family of letters? What is the relationship between imagination and fact? How is history tangled, reinvented...

Um -- Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean By Michael Erard Pantheon, 287 pages, $24.95 After two Richard Daleys, one might observe that Chicagoans don't need to...

Filibuster to Delay a Kiss: And Other Poems By Courtney Queeney Random House, 82 pages, $19.95 The poems in this collection by Chicago native Courtney Queeney expose truths of maturing...

Elusive quarry. This phrase inspires dreams of big game in Africa, not a CEO in suburban Chicago. In the months that Greg Burns followed Sara Lee's Brenda Barnes, he might...

The Paris Review Interviews, II Introduction by Orhan Pamuk Picador, 512 pages, $16 paper In his introduction to this sampling of interviews that ran in "The Paris Review" since its...

In her essay, "Sisterhood of the traveling aunts," novelist Jessica Treadway explores how she and her sisters derive strength from one another, and that theme animates our annual Women's Health...

The Principles of Uncertainty By Maira Kalman Penguin, 325 pages, $29.95 "This is a year in my life profusely illustrated," Maira Kalman writes -- or rather, handprints -- inside the...