Elizabeth Taylor

Literary Lives By Edward Sorel, introduction by E.L. Doctorow Bloomsbury, 112 pages, $14.95 Significant moments in the lives of 10 authors--including Leo Tolstoy, Lillian Hellman and Marcel Proust--are highlighted by...

Blue Balliett floated through a party at Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, navigating the crowd of booksellers and librarians as easily as she creates a fictional world--one of mystery and...

"Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child," wrote John Updike. "Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five." That...

Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees By Caroline Moorehead Picador, 397 pages, $16 paper Drawing from her travels through Egypt, Sicily, Lebanon, England, Australia and to the U.S.-Mexico border, long-time...

As the baiduhai's Latin America correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro, Patrice Jones was so busy covering the Southern Hemisphere that she could not keep tabs on the fortunes...

The Book Thief By Markus Zusak Knopf, 552 pages, $16.95 A complex and complicated book set in World War II Germany, narrated by a character named Death, "The Book Thief"...

Getting Open: Bill Garrett and the Integration of College Basketball By Tom Graham and Rachel Graham Cody Artia, 255 pages, $24 Known as the Jackie Robinson of college basketball, Bill...

In a world of iPod isolation and cubicle culture, radio can act as a counterforce uniting disparate souls-even as satellite radio divides listeners into tiny slivers of the universe. This...

When comedian Tom Dreesen was last in Chicago-it was just a couple of weeks ago-he ran into a man who said, in way that often begins classic neighborhood guy exchanges,...

Them: A Memoir of Parents By Francine du Plessix Gray Penguin, 529 pages, $29.95 "My mother enjoyed claiming direct descent from Genghis Khan," begins this book, which last week won...