Elizabeth Taylor

New Jersey is the land of "The Sopranos" and the butt of many jokes. To quote Ben Franklin: "New Jersey is like a beer barrel, tapped at both ends, with...

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 Edited by Dave Eggers, with an introduction by Sufjan Stevens Houghton Mifflin, 353 pages, $14 paper Stew, bouillabaisse, patchwork quilt. Although those trite descriptions...

The Best American Essays 2007 Edited by David Foster Wallace Houghton Mifflin, 307 pages, $14 paper Autumn may mean leaves and pumpkins for most of the citizenry, but a small...

Reading Life: Books for the Ages By Sven Birkerts Graywolf, 191 pages, $16 paper Sven Birkerts is a wonderful literary critic and with this collection of 12 intimate essays about...

This week's cover story was born, in a sense, when writer Hugh Dellios spent a summer during his college years supervising a seed-corn detasseling crew at the Pabst Farms in...

The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places Edited by Klara Glowczewska Penguin, 416 pages, $16 paper Haven't gotten away this summer? Find airlines a...

Just One Thing, the feature from Tribune senior correspondent Ellen Warren, has evolved since its debut a year ago. "At the beginning, it was just about the 'Things' in Just...

The Worst Years of Your Life Edited by Mark Jude Poirer Simon & Schuster, 383 pages, $15 paper Julie Orringer's wonderful story "Note to Sixth-Grade Self" is sufficient reason to...

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."...

Then We Came to the End By Joshua Ferris Little, Brown, 387 pages, $23.99 Set in a Chicago advertising agency in the midst of a downturn, this is Studs Terkel's...