Elizabeth Taylor

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress By Dai Sijie Anchor, 197 pages, $18 The author, like the two heroes of this finely wrought gem of a tale, withstood the "re-education"...

Richard Price demanded public attention for "The Wanderers," his 1974 novel about a teenage gang in the Bronx, and has continued to mine his youth in Bronx housing projects and...

The New New Journalism: Conversations With America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft By Robert S. Boynton Knopf, 496 pages, $13.95 paper Tom Wolfe famously argued in 1973 that nonfiction,...

"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height....

Never Coming to a Theater Near You: A Celebration of a Certain Kind of Movie By Kenneth Turan PublicAffairs, 401 pages, $25 "This Boy's Life." "Election." "The Quiet American." With...

The relentless digging and interviewing that are the foundation of cover stories rarely intersect with the front lines of battle. This week's cover story, "Bulldog," written by our versatile wordsmith...

Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black America's Main Street By Jonathan Tilove, photographs by Michael Falco Random House, 201 pages, $29.95 Belle Glade, Fla. Jackson, Wyo. Idabel, Okla. Africa,...

Ash heap. Burden. How peculiar that our collective imagination about history is organized to its weight rather than its joys. Here at the Magazine, we are unrelenting in our efforts...

For all intensive purposes. A smaller amount of people. Hopefully. Imply, not infer. Flout, not flaunt. And we haven't even mentioned moving the ball forward or thinking outside the box....

The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words By Ronald C. White Jr. Random House, 448 pages, $26.95 The power of Abraham Lincoln's "rhetorical leadership" is the focus...