Julia Keller

To get the essence of Sam Shepard, you have to hit the road. Not metaphorically. Do it for real. You ought to drive for a while and then pull off...

Here is a partial list of groups who might consider suing Dennis Lehane for defamation, based on his latest novel: people who own Hummers; people of Russian descent; people who...

At first the letters are ordinary, even dull. Some sound merely dutiful, instead of passionately wrought and inspired. Others are a bit pretentious. They could've been written, you think, by...

At first the letters are ordinary, even dull. Some sound merely dutiful, instead of passionately wrought and inspired. Others are a bit pretentious. They could've been written, you think, by...

The names constitute their own kind of poetry. They mark the junction of science, with its descriptive rigor, and syllables. Try reciting a few of them aloud: Glossy Privet and...

No virulent virus, no bizarre bacteria, no strange ache or mysterious pain — in fact, no odd ailment of any sort — could have been quite as scary for Neal...

There's this kid. She lives with her family in a small apartment in one of those Chicago neighborhoods that nobody — including the people who live there — drives through...