Elizabeth Taylor

True Confessions By John Gregory Dunne, introduction by George Pelecanos Thunder's Mouth, 341 pages, $14.95 paper After seeing "Capote," if you're inclined toward crime, curl up with this new edition...

There are those of us who favor literature to capture the full range of human emotion. Yet there seem be to insufficient adjectives in the dictionary to describe the range...

In This House of Brede By Rumer Godden, introduction by Phyllis Tickle Loyola Press, 656 pages, $13.95 paper This novel, originally published in 1969, is a portrait of a stylish,...

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, most of us watched the images on the screen and in newspapers and despaired. Lara Weber, though, headed south. Lara, an editor with the...

In this week's cover story, "Blade runner," you will meet a young man from Chicago who has his eyes on gold medals. Making the introduction to speedskater Shani Davis we...

Carl Hiaasen, known for his best-selling--usually hilarious--novels about murder and mayhem in Florida and for his love-hate relationship with Florida, has reinvented himself as a writer for young adults. Hiaasen,...

Lincoln By Gore Vidal Vintage, 672 pages, $16 paper Is fiction more authentic than history? This 1984 novel takes no liberties with the truth of the heroic, tragic Abraham Lincoln,...

The Worst Noel: Hellish Holiday Tales By various authors HarperCollins, 207 pages, $14.95 Bah, humbug. Forget the fruitcake and bring this quirky book to your holiday hosts this season. Eighteen...

"The Jetsons" may have debuted in 1962 and been set a century later, in 2062, but somehow even the futuristic world seemed all too familiar. George still commuted to the...

The march of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman through Georgia and the Carolinas forms the backbone of E.L. Doctorow's new novel, "The March," but the book is more about war generally...