Elizabeth Taylor

"Pat and Mike," that Tracy-Hepburn delight from 1952, might be as close as some of us care to get to a golf course, but that should not prevent you from...

"Bookless in Baghdad: Reflections on Writing and Writers By Shashi Tharoor Arcade, 288 pages, $25 This amalgam of essay, literary criticism and memoir blends into a tribute to the world...

"Anyone," my mother says, "can find someone to marry. Being single-that takes guts." Despite the success of female suffrage and the fact that men can tend the children and fry...

The Secret Society of Demolition Writers Edited by Marc Parent Random House, 244 pages, $22.95 A completely disorienting story collection. A dozen authors--including the likes of Elizabeth McCracken, Alice Sebold...

Heroes compel admiration. Paul Rusesabagina, the Hutu man in "Hotel Rwanda" who saved hundreds of lives during the 1994 genocide, is the personification of triumphant goodwill. Writer Don Terry introduced...

100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century Edited by Mark Strand Norton, 320 pages, $24.95 The expected choices are here (T.S. Eliot's "Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock") as well as...

As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day, A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray, Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun...

Television both reflects and shapes reality. Devoted fans of "Law & Order" and its spinoffs, including "Criminal Intent" and "Special Victims Unit," know the cues. When an early scene opens...

Slouching Towards Kalamazoo By Peter De Vries University of Chicago Press, 246 pages, $14 paper It's North Dakota in 1963, and the hero is a sophisticated adolescent who reads Joyce...

In this year's Summer Pleasures issue, "The livin' is easy," we celebrate a reverence for old-fashioned, low-tech simplicity. Associate editor Desiree Chen was the fairy godmother of this issue, and...