Julia Keller

In 2001, Jonathan Franzen's critically lauded and commercially successful novel "The Corrections" was published. It was about a Midwestern family. On Tuesday, Franzen's new novel, "Freedom" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)...

Tana French has written three extraordinary novels. The most recent, "Faithful Place" (Viking), is about a Dublin police officer named Frank Mackey and his colorful, feuding, infuriating family, from which...

You know that a fictional character has gotten under your skin when you find yourself giving him career advice. I knew I'd crossed the literary Rubicon with Gus Carpenter when...

Feliks Zhokovski, narrator of the engaging new novel "The Breaking of Eggs" (Penguin) by Jim Powell, spends most of his life in transit. Feliks is the author of a travel...

Time, they say, never stands still, but they're wrong. It does. Turn on TV Land, catch an episode of "Bewitched" and there's Paul Lynde as Samantha's irrepressible Uncle Arthur, eternally...

If readers had to pick a single word to throw my way after I nominated 10 one-word titles as the best and worst of all time in a July 25...

In every memoir there's a moment of truth, a sudden proving ground. It's like that high note hidden in the melody of "The Star-Spangled Banner," the one that separates the...

Rosecrans Baldwin has few memories of Chicago, the city of his birth. He was only 2 when his family moved to Nashville, Tenn., where his father had been offered another...

The world can't get enough of Stieg Larsson, even though he left the world in 2004. The late Swedish author's trilogy of mysteries starring an investigative reporter and a multipierced...