Elizabeth Taylor

The Resilient Writer Edited by Catherine Wald Persea, 234 pages, $14.95 paper Twenty-three authors, including Amy Tan, Edmund White and Kathryn Harrison, share their stories of rejection along the way...

Can vacations have a mission beyond indulgence? Is maxing out credit cards the only way to escape the humdrum ordinariness of life? What of the 9-countries-in-18-days plan from that 1969...

Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race and Themselves Edited by Camille Peri and Kate Moses HarperCollins, 372 pages, $24.95 The creators of...

Jimmy Hoffa disappears. John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced in the Watergate cover-up. Saturday Night Live debuts. 1975 was a year of big events, but one in...

Bellow By James Atlas Random House, 686 pages, $35; Modern Library, 686 pages, $16.95 paper This wonderful biography traces the trajectory of Saul Bellow's career and smartly establishes the relationship...

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules Edited and introduced by David Sedaris Simon & Schuster, 344 pages, $14.95 paper "The authors in this book are huge to me," David...

Pedestrians strolling by Tribune Tower, if they break stride, never fail to be amazed at the more than 150 rocks and artifacts from around the world that are embedded in...

New Beginnings Introduction by Helen Fielding Bloomsbury, 240 pages, $9.95 paper Sixteen internationally celebrated writers, including Margaret Atwood, Nick Hornby and Stephen King, have contributed unpublished stories and glimpses of...

Babies aren't the only ones who have to learn to walk. At least that's the message in our new Magazine feature "Class Notes," in which semi-intrepid staff writer Jessica Reaves...

Chicago literature is known for its gritty urban realism-the tradition made famous by the holy trinity of Nelson Algren, Theodore Dreiser and James T. Farrell. A new generation-Carol Anshaw, Jeffrey...