Elizabeth Taylor

The Hobbitt By J.R.R. Tolkien Houghton Mifflin, 289 pages, $35 The Tolkien Society has declared March 25 as a sort of day of international celebration of the great author's work....

For those of us who can't tell a ballast from a banister and think DIY means "Don't initiate yourself," the accessibility of home design advice and resources has never been...

The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher Doubleday, 527 pages, $27.95 By Debby Applegate Henry Ward Beecher's sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, is more famous now,...

When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School Edited by John McNally Free Press, 287 pages, $15 paper Reunion season is around the corner and instead...

Stevenson Swanson, one of the Tribune's national correspondents based in New York and author of this week's cover story, "'Life' goes on," listened regularly to NPR's "This American Life." Steve...

The gravest danger of the apple-a-day advice used to be a worm, but these days we hear of a plethora of dangers, from pesticides to choking. And we're just talking...

Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers Edited by Samantha Schnee, Alane Salierno Mason, and Dedi Felman Introduction by Andre Dubus III Anchor Books, 367 pages, $14...

Even for those of us who boycotted summer camp, believing it to be some horrible extension of junior high and "Lord of the Flies," the idea does elicit nostalgic yearnings....

The Wikipedia entry for "renovation" led to a photograph of one of the most culturally significant places in the world--the Parthenon at the Acropolis. Our goals for this Home Renovation...

Edited by Harriet Brown Ballantine, 259 pages, $24.95 Valentine's Day may mean diamonds, chocolate and romance, but it is also an occasion to turn a woeful tale into a great...