Elizabeth Taylor

Writing in an Age of Silence By Sara Paretsky Verso, 138 pages, $22.95 "When I enter a library, when I enter a world of books, I feel the ghosts of...

The day camp was named "Play Hill," I ate my brown-bag lunch alone every day and I remember it by its obvious nickname. There may have been a pond, but...

Away From Her By Alice Munro with a preface by Sarah Polley Vintage, 76 pages, $9 paper The great short story writer Alice Munro is so often likened to Anton...

For this week's cover story on how PETA went mainstream, we faced a question: How to illustrate a story about an issue where there was no central figure? The result...

For most of us, the ultimate mystery is what lies within our hearts: What makes us happy, what ghosts haunt us late at night? So who could possibly be up...

Sitting in a meeting room filled with photographs of former chairmen of the Chicago City Council's Finance Committee, the committee's current chairman, Edward M. Burke, alderman of the 14th Ward...

Today's designer pups -- Labradoodles, Puggles, Cock-A-Poos -- don't poke their wet, hybrid noses into the pages of this anthology. These 23 tales are about canines, both mutts and pure-breds,...

Comedy is an essential part of Chicago, and the particular brand of humor fashioned at Second City over the last generation has not only reflected our self-image but also gone...

The Books section has moved to the Saturday edition of the Tribune. Faithful readers will recognize freshened features in the section. With the switch to Saturday, we are also expanding...

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression By Studs Terkel New Press, 462 pages, $16.95 paper Studs Terkel, who celebrated his 95th birthday this week, demurs when asked...