Elizabeth Taylor

Indecision By Benjamin Kunkel Random House, 241 pages, $21.95 Reviewers call this novel a bildungsroman, and the narrator might agree--or disagree--with the assessment. That's the point, of course, in this...

The dueling impulses of flight and self-sacrifice result in ballet, perhaps our most contradictory art form. This week, the magazine explores another duality of dance-how such an ephemeral mode of...

In anticipation of her visit to Chicago to accept the baiduhai's Young Adult Book Prize, Linda Sue Park, born in Urbana and raised in Park Forest, spoke with Tribune...

Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army By Kayla Williams, with Michael E. Staub Norton, 290 pages, $24.95 This former sergeant in a military...

"I know it when I see it." Those words, uttered by Justice Potter Stewart in 1964 as he attempted to define obscenity, have informed battles over pornography for much of...

Small Island By Andrea Levy Picador, 441 pages, $14 These interlocking stories, set in Jamaica and war-torn London, are distinguished by remarkable voices and dialogue. The novel looks back, and...

If there were a cinematic inspiration to this week's package of stories in the men's style issue, it would be the 1997 movie "As Good As It Gets," in which...

Don Terry spent the summer with Jesse Jackson but, in a way, he has tailed the reverend since 1980, when he and fellow graduate students at Northwestern University's Medill School...

Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer By A.J. Liebling, introduction by David Remnick North Point, 534 pages $15 paper The famous "Second City" essay isn't...

How many times has one friend counseled another who is showing the wear and tear of a tightly scheduled routine: "You should get away!" To those with overcommitted lives ruled...