Elizabeth Taylor

Rules for Old Men Waiting By Peter Pouncey Random House, 210 pages, $21.95 This wise and quiet book, told in an impressionistic fashion and set during World War I, has...

Perhaps no season generates as many traditions as winter. Trees, sing-a-longs and, inescapably, fruitcakes. In autumn and spring, activities are more improvisational, and while holidays like the Fourth of July...

Best New American Voices 2006 Guest editor Jane Smiley, series editors John Kulka and Natalie Danford Harcourt, 306 pages, $14 paper Jane Smiley selected 15 stories, after more than 400...

Household Words By Joan Silber Norton, 340 pages, $13.95 paper This edition of Joan Silber's acclaimed 1980 novel features an introduction by Mona Simpson, who notes that "the central thrust...

Pictures have been made since ancient times, but it was not until a scientist recorded images by light on a sensitive material that the word "photography"-derived from the Greek words...

Dividing the world into categories is a favorite parlor game: People who like Stephen Spielberg, those who don't. Those who prefer one coast to another-but the third coast above all,...

Rosa Parks: A Life By Douglas Brinkley Penguin Lives, 246 pages, $13 paper Rosa Parks died Oct. 24, and this eloquent little book about the seamstress whose quiet defiance triggered...

Great literature casts light on the human condition with force and clarity. It is our tradition, every fall, to step back, take a break from the heartbreak of the headlines...

Upon learning last summer that August Wilson had been diagnosed with liver cancer, a few of us recalled his visit to Chicago last fall when he accepted the baiduhai...

The Man With the Golden Arm By Nelson Algren Seven Stories, 343 pages, $14.95 paper This novel--featuring such Division Street denizens as card dealer, drummer and druggy Frankie Machine; his...