Julia Keller

The best definition of the spy business I've ever read involves not derring-do, not leaps from lurching trucks or pirouettes within bloody gun battles, but something far more dreary and...

All-time best one-word titles "Gunsmoke" (1955-75), TV series "Jaws," novel (1974) by Peter Benchley and film (1975) "Lost" (2004-10), TV series "Babe" (1995), film "Fateless" (1975), novel by Imre Kertesz...

There's a word for titles like these: Ugh. The hot new summer films "Inception" and "Salt" may be entertaining and popular, but when it comes to the snipped-off monikers by...

Please don't take this the wrong way, but you're an idiot. You're so incredibly dumb, in fact, that you seem to enjoy being told what a bumbling, ignorant, mistake-prone, myopic...

Childhood is a little like death: You can only write about it when you're not in it, which means your description is basically an educated guess. Within that limitation, however,...

To anyone who's depressed about the state of literary culture these days, Dennis Johnson would like to offer a three-word pep talk: Go to Chicago. It was during a recent...

This time of year, the beach beckons. Instead of just lying around in a stupefied, sun-drenched drowse, however, why not turn those vacation hours at the seaside into a learning...

In case it's not clear from her slouch or her frown or the way she rolls her eyes and sneers savagely at anything related to puppies, sunshine or apple pie,...

Vita Sackville-West is not a household name — which is a shame, because she was all about households. She and her husband, British diplomat Harold Nicolson, created one of the...