Elizabeth Taylor

On May 19, the Books section will move to the Saturday edition of the Tribune. Faithful readers will recognize freshened features of the section. With the switch to Saturday, we...

Photographer E. Jason Wambsgans spends most of his time in the urban jungle. For his debut in the Magazine, he followed a troop of visitors from Michigan who were heading...

For the Love of Letters: A 21st-Century Guide to the Art of Letter Writing By Samara O'Shea Collins, 172 pages, $19.95 Emily Post bemoaned the threats to letter writing --...

A beach may be a geological formation, but the words "beach vacation" do not bring to mind loose rock particles (otherwise known as sand). Instead, imaginations lead to clear azure...

How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors Edited by Dan Crowe, with Philip Oltermann Rizzoli, 192 pages, $35 With the goal of tearing down "the invisible wall between us...

New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America and Beyond Edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas Norton, 368 pages, 15.95 paper The stories in this collection are so short that...

The dramatic, painful story of Celie is at the heart of "The Color Purple," Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which was published in 1982 and made into a movie by...

"Little shop of hackers," the lead-off story in this week's special golf issue, was born in the 19th Ward. Traveling throughout the city, interviewing every alderman as part of his...

This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women Edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman, foreword by Studs Terkel Holt, 281 pages, $23 Inspired by Edward R....

Stories about the boy on the cover of this week's Magazine have animated discussion around here over the last few months. We waited for Don Terry's reports on how Destyne...