Elizabeth Taylor

Tribune reporter Mark Caro has made a quite a name for himself covering food fights between celebrity chefs. Mark chronicled the 2005 dispute between Charlie Trotter and Rick Tramonto over...

Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems Edited by Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer University of Illinois Press, 216 pages, $50, $19.95 paper In Chicago we love an underdog, whatever its...

The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe Edited, with an introduction and notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins Norton, 480 pages, $39.95 Abraham Lincoln said...

Lifelong jazz fan Charles Leroux found a little item in the newspaper: At 71, while many of his contemporaries were slowing their pace, jazz great Ramsey Lewis had signed a...

As any Chicago theatergoer knows, the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston is a big deal. In fact, with the success of its abundant stars-like Joan and John Cusack, Aidan Quinn...

The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books Edited by J. Peder Zane Norton, 352 pages, $14.95 paper More than 100 famous writers--from Norman Mailer, David Foster Wallace and Scott...

Changing the world seems such a daunting task sometimes. Here at the Magazine, we hope to work with readers to take baby steps toward a brighter future. Perhaps we have...

Money Changes Everything: Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo With Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune Edited by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell Doubleday,...

Could "The Organization Man" of 1956, a corporate loyalist and conformist, exist today when the watchwords are entrepreneurship and innovation? Or is that character type as outdated as "I Love...

Best New American Voices 2007 Edited by Sue Miller, series editors John Kulka and Natalie Danford Harcourt, 318 pages, $14 paper I eagerly anticipate this annual volume of stories culled...