Julia Keller

The last time a white writer tried to give prolonged fictional voice to the thoughts and emotions of an oppressed black person in a major novel, the result was devastating...

What a splendid book this is. It's filled with impressive scholarship, but the research is worn so lightly that it never comes across as stuffy or pretentious, and all is...

You don't have to be a disgruntled tea-guzzler to figure out that there is a deep unrest in our nation today, manifested in a growing cadre of decent, hardworking Americans...

My favorite description of spring comes from the Andre Gide novella "The Pastoral Symphony" (1931), in which a young, blind woman hears birdsong and assumes it is "simply the effect...

The first time I read "The Things They Carried," I had a chip on my shoulder roughly the size of Texas — which was only fitting because that's where author...

He bears the surname of one of the most renowned and beloved authors of the 20th century — and so guess which profession Simon Tolkien decided to enter? Here's a...

You think of yourself as a moderately well-read person. And then you come across a book so brilliant, so moving, so enchanting, by an author you had not even heard...

You can have your FBI, your CIA, your EPA, your ATF, your NASA and your NCIS. Heck, I'll even throw in NCIS: LA. Keep it all — the whole alphabetical...

Mark Pendergrast, author of the new book "Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service" (Houghton Mifflin), has also written nonfiction books about the history of...

Got that gambling Web site up on the screen? Good. Pay attention here. The championship game of the NCAA men's basketball tournament looms, and we've got a surefire, rock-solid, iron-clad,...