Elizabeth Taylor

Stories about suburban life in the 1960s and 1970s abound, but few novels so fully bring the time and characters alive as "After This," Alice McDermott's sixth novel. Irish-Catholic Long...

Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses Edited by Bill Henderson, with the Pushcart Prize editors Pushcart, 549 pages, $16.95 paper This annual collection is eagerly anticipated for it's...

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT LAURIE GOERING, based in Johannesburg, has reported from war-torn lands and places of great danger. Laurie, along with Tribune colleagues Liz Sly (who is based in Cairo), Kim...

Moral Disorder: Stories By Margaret Atwood Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 225 pages, $23.95 The interconnected tales here loop back and forth in time, in the life arc of a bookish, stoic...

The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies Anchor Books, 486 pages, $15.95 This anthology packs in 79 writers from all over the Arab-speaking world and stretches...

Ambivalence does not suit Chicago, and neither does indifference or irony. So when it comes to winter, it's no wonder that passions run high--and in opposite directions. This theme captivated...

The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker Edited by Matthew Diffee, foreword by Robert Mankoff Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 264 pages, $22.95 The...

"Global citizenship" might be the watchword in American education today, but the Chinese government really knows what it's talking about. In this week's package of stories, the Magazine explores the...

The Best American Short Stories 2006 Edited by Ann Patchett, series editor Katrina Kension Houghton Mifflin, 388 pages $14 paper This collection is what Ann Patchett, in her introduction, calls...

America's founders set a high standard for political writing, and most contemporary efforts fall woefully short. How nice, then, to have a politician who can write as well as U.S....