Elizabeth Taylor

Watership Down By Richard Adams Scribner, 474 pages, $14 paper On a gloomy day, a trip to England's downs--in the form of this tale, now in print more than 30...

In their series "Nation of Strangers," Ron Grossman and Charles Leroux explored isolation in contemporary life as old-fashioned neighborhoods vanished and suburban life morphed from small towns into cul-de-sac developments....

Even casual observers will notice this week's Books section has a very different look. In addition to introducing some bold new ideas, we've returned to our original, more booklike shape,...

Gift From the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition By Anne Morrow Lindbergh, with a new introduction by Reeve Lindbergh Pantheon, 130 pages, $9.95 paper "The sea does not reward those who...

Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry, sat down in the magazine's offices with Tribune literary editor Elizabeth Taylor and reflected on writing poetry and the state of the art: Q. How...

For many of us, coffee is to newspapers what bread is to butter, and work to play-each entirely necessary and enhanced by the other's presence. So, as one settles down...

Chicago history buffs are a class above all others. They know the difference between obscure mayors buried at Graceland Cemetery (Benjamin Raymond, Julian Rumsey) and the ones at Rosehill (Augustus...

We look forward to introducing you to a redesigned Books section next Sunday. We have changed the format, making the section easier to read and, well, more book-like. We have...

Debates about origins and evolution have raged since the beginning-wherever one locates that in time. Today, battles play out in classrooms and courtrooms over how, and whether, evolution should be...

In ancient Rome, the celebrities were mostly the gladiators who fought one another (or more often slaves) to the death before thousands of spectators. It is much easier to be...