Elizabeth Taylor

This week's Magazine was born in the depth of heartless winter, when we imagined a warm world, full of citizens extending hands to one another. In the season of ambitious...

Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bronte By Maureen Adams Ballantine, 299 pages, $24.95 Move over Marley. Make room...

As the school year beckons, party poopers arrive. They wave news about soaring tuition costs and impossible admissions odds, and complain about the woeful preparation of the college-bound. This week,...

The cover story "I'm Still Crossing the Border," about an undocumented immigrant graduating from Benito Juarez High School with a 4.7 grade-point average and a strong determination to attend college,...

The Shadow Catcher By Marianne Wiggins Simon & Schuster, 323 pages, $25 History, biography, photography -- these elements are wrapped into this novel narrated by a fictitious Marianne Wiggins. The...

Establishing a connection between often disparate events, places and themes animates journalists, and so one story quite often will lead to another. That is certainly the case with this week's...

Best of Young American Novelists 2 Granta, 352 pages, $14.95 paper The first edition of "Best of Young American Novelists" came out in 1996 and included now-famous authors like Jeffrey...

Mean girls have been around forever. Witness Jezebel and Salome. But with the growing alarm over girls' bullying each other as early as grade school, one wonders whether today's girls...

Instructions for American Servicemen In Iraq During World War II University of Chicago Press, 44 pages, $10 Truth may lie in the details for some, but for others of us...

In an ideal world, a journalist would work on one story at a time. Of course, the world falls far short of ideal, no more so than in the harried...