Elizabeth Taylor

There are few famous people whose lives are as sparsely documented as William Shakespeare's. In his book "Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare" (Norton, 430 pages, $26.95), Harvard...

Voices of War: Stories of Service From the Home Front and the Front Lines By Tom Weiner National Geographic, 336 pages, $30 Since its inception four years ago, the Veterans...

Even in a world with so much information and news competing for attention, getting people to read anything with the word "sex" in it usually isn't difficult, but be assured...

Throwing a lavish and expensive party requires one thing: money. Tasteful and elegant is slightly more challenging, but an etiquette book will do the trick. Clever? Now that's a tough...

Few things in modern life affirm human relationships and cast light on the human condition with the force and clarity of great literature. Whether we're reading a novel or memoir,...

It's no wonder that this is a theater town, because Chicago itself is quite a stage, as Studs Terkel once observed. "Chicago is not the most corrupt American city," he...

Pols: Great Writers on American Politicians From Bryan to Reagan Edited by Jack Beatty PublicAffairs, 463 pages, $28 Take a breather from the crush of current political news and read...

Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown v. Board of Education By Danielle S. Allen University of Chicago Press, 231 pages, $25 This muscular, well-argued book by University of...

Before G.P Taylor--otherwise known as Graham Taylor--became the best-selling author of "Shadowmancer," a magic-filled fantasy set in 18th Century England, he was the vicar of Ravenscar, on England's Yorkshire coast....

Race is the subtext of American politics, and as the November election draws near we examine some of the issues raised by the Senate candidacy and sudden national prominence of...