Elizabeth Taylor

The Sunny Side: Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-Ups By A.A. Milne Ecco, 312 pages, $19.95 The search for a perfect summer poem led to "A Song for the...

The next "Tuesdays with Morrie"! The next "Marley and Me"! The next "The Devil in the White City"! The book publishing business is always looking for the next big title,...

"Six months before Polly Cain drowned in the canal, my sister, Nona, ran off and married a cowboy." So begins this beguiling novel set in a rather grim Colorado ranch....

The house at Black Point has been luring Chicagoans over the Wisconsin border for more than a century, and Tribune senior correspondent Greg Burns is no exception. Five years ago,...

Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home By David Shipley and Will Schwalbe Knopf, 247 pages, $19.95 Sure, sure. Think before you send. That's the conventional warning....

The story of Andre Schiffrin is well-known in publishing circles. His father, French Jewish publisher Jacques Schiffrin, fled Europe with his family to escape the Nazis in an exit orchestrated...

The relationship between a political candidate and a consultant might be complicated, but it seems like kindergarten next to the relationship between a political consultant and a journalist. A trusting...

Land of Lincoln By Andrew Ferguson Atlantic, 274 pages, $24 For those lacking inspiration to wander through the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield this summer, pick up...

Growing up, I did have bicycles, any number of them, and I loved to ride. But never, ever was I tempted to sit myself down on a motorcycle. They were...

Every parent learns that children can bring both joy and anguish. But few families face the ordeal that David Royko, son of legendary columnist Mike Royko, recounts in this week's...