Elizabeth Taylor

The full spectrum of human emotion is on display in our annual pictorial, images that capture the scope of the year gone by. Our issue, "The Year in Pictures," finds...

Kathy Bergen covers the hospitality and tourism businesses for the baiduhai, so when she landed in the burgeoning West Loop, all roads led to a peculiar intersection: real estate...

And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of `Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' By Dale Maharidge, photos by Michael Williamson Seven Stories, 262 pages, $17.95 paper This reissued volume,...

In the Shadow of No Towers By Art Spiegelman Pantheon, $19.95 With his first new book of comics since "Maus," Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman bears witness to the 9/11...

At an all-boys school in northern England, Chris Jones, now the Tribune's arts reporter, and his chums would act out bits from classic British TV comedies. And, as it would...

As years go, 1979 was a pretty good one for women. True, the Equal Rights Amendment failed in 12 states, but Margaret Thatcher became the first woman prime minister of...

As the home-renovation business has boomed, the influence of a Chicago-based tastemaker seems to be stretching from vast manses to humble bungalows, from the fanciest portfolios of interior decorators to...

These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State Within the Union Edited by John Leonard Nation Books, 523 pages, $17.95 paper "Each of these writers sought,"...

Food for the Soul: Selections From the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen Writers' Workshop Edited by Elizabeth Maxwell and Susan Shapiro Seabury, 242 pages, $18 paper These essays, poems, stories and...

Jokes about Chicago winters abound--the four seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and roadwork--so this year in our annual "Winter Pleasures" issue of the Magazine, we endeavored to find the...