Julia Keller

I may very well have been the slowest, shortest and least-coordinated point guard in the long history of basketball, but know this: When it came to reading about the game,...

Clinton, Bush, Obama. Not just our three most recent presidents — but three dads. And not just three dads: three dads of daughters. So maybe it's a clue. So maybe...

The sweet-faced gatekeepers at convents, it turns out, share at least one crucial attribute with slit-eyed, cigar-chomping Hollywood producers: Both are obsessed with youth. That's one of the surprising facts...

Never think you've heard the last word about any writer. Writers' lives are like those fancy trunks used by magicians, the ones with false bottoms and secret compartments and trick...

Here's a little experiment to try in the privacy of your own home: Read the first few paragraphs — heck, make it the first few lines — of any novel...

Putting aside a book before finishing it is not a simple thing, as I noted in a recent column. Many of you agreed. I received more than 150 e-mails from...