Elizabeth Taylor

"I Never Saw Another Butterfly," the book of drawings and poetry from some of the 15,000 children who passed through the Terezin concentration camp, near Prague, informed thinking about the...

Snow By Orhan Pamuk, translated from Turkish by Maureen Freely Vintage, 448 pages, $14.95 In this novel, an exiled poet returns to Turkey after a decade abroad and faces myriad...

Parents worry. This week's cover story, "The high cost of cheap drugs," may do little to allay those fears, but by providing an unflinching look at the sharp rise of...

Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age: At the American Film Institute By George Stevens Jr. Knopf, 710 pages, $35 Anyone remotely interested in movies will be enchanted...

Rhetoric and reality. The vast swamp between the two territories is rarely more evident than in this week's cover story "Postcards from the Axis of Evil," by Tribune foreign correspondent...

House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live By Winifred Gallagher HarperCollins, 329 pages, $24.95 "How do the decisions we make about our domestic world both reveal and influence...

Reporter Stephanie Banchero specializes in covering public schools, but over the course of the 2 1/2 years she spent at Stockton Elementary School, she got quite an education herself. While...

Monologue of a Dog By Wislawa Szymborska Harcourt, 96 pages, $22 I'm still asleep, but meanwhile facts are taking place. Those lines in this collection of 26 poems by Wislawsa...

That voice. That is what everybody notices, the raspy, just-out-of-the-Billy Goat voice that is trademark Rick Kogan. You may have heard Rick on his radio program "Sunday Papers" on WGN...

Pushcart Prize XXX: Best of the Small Presses Edited by Bill Henderson, with the Pushcart Prize editors Pushcart, 538 pages, $35 Three decades ago, Bill Henderson, who will receive the...