Elizabeth Taylor

The Inheritance of Loss By Kiran Desai Grove, 357 pages, $14 paper This novel, moving between the mountains of the Himalayas, the austerity of a British boardinghouse and the orbit...

On a brisk morning in 1962, photographers and reporters were beckoned to witness Mayor Richard J. Daley welcome the first resident of the Robert Taylor Homes. The complex, the world's...

This week, we welcome Dave Barry back to our pages with his annual review of the past year. Barry's reflections are sure to inspire a chuckle-and some groans. But as...

Cancer Vixen: A True Story By Marisa Acocella Marchetto Knopf, 212 pages, $22 The tone is "Sex in the City" in this memoir by New Yorker cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto...

Everybody is a photographer these days. Life seems to be an endless loop of YouTube and Iphoto. Both private, intimate moments and large-scale public events are captured and transmitted around...

"The quality of his life and his actions were his eulogy," said Father Gilbert Graham, Mayor Richard J. Daley's former pastor and longtime family friend. There may have been no...

Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E.J. Kaufman, and America's Most Extraordinary House By Franklin Toker Knopf, 479 pages, $35 Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin offers his selection of books (see...

"All you got to do is play hard in this town and they'll love you." --FORMER BEARS QUARTERBACK JIM MCMAHON Although there's no recruiting staff on the Magazine, a team...

Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes Written and illustrated by Mark Crick Harcourt, 92 pages, $14.95 An utterly charming little book in which each dish...

In the high-stakes roulette game of college admissions, footing the bill is part of the stress. The anxiety and pressure are exacerbated by the fact that college graduates earn far...