Elizabeth Taylor

Beautiful Jim Key: The Lost History of a Horse and a Man Who Changed the World By Mim Eichler Rivas Morrow, 334 pages, $25.95 Seabiscuit couldn't add numbers, spell words...

In this week's cover story, "Pitch perfect: Back in black," we present a realistic sense of fall fashions by asking five "real" women to pull on the apparel of the...

"Off-handed remarks have a way of sticking with you," says Joe Darrow, one of the Magazine's art directors. For him, it was the day his 1st-grade teacher, Mrs. Lind, said...

School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School By Edward Humes Harcourt, 370 pages, $25 With the school year approaching, here's a look at a school...

Welcome to the wide world of science-or is it theater? That is the question at the heart of this week's cover story, "Shock Value," by Russell Working, who ventured to...

The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World By Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone Doubleday, 320 pages, $26 This account...

In his new book, "The American Revelation: Ten Ideals that Shaped Our Country From the Puritans to the Cold War" (St. Martin's, 272 pages, $24.95), Neil Baldwin focuses on individuals...

Conceiving new ways to connect with readers is the subject of many a water-cooler conversation around here. In the end, it all seems to come down to the human link....

Lance Armstrong's War: One Man's Battle Against Fate, Fame, Love, Death, Scandal, and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour De France By Daniel Coyle HarperCollins, 326...

The Paris Review Book of People With Problems Introduction by Stephin Merritt Picador, 371 pages, $15 paper Trouble with a capital "T"--that's the theme of this collection of 17 stories...