Julia Keller

Somewhere, Jane Austen is aghast. Queen Victoria is about to blow a gasket. And your sweet little great-grandmother, the one apt to blush when the word "corset" came up in...

It drags just a bit toward the end, but generally "The Likeness," the second novel by Irish writer Tana French, which recently was published in paperback by Penguin, is the...

Buddy's a cool guy. You know it right away. You can see him there on page 56 of "The Dixie Highway In Illinois" (Arcadia). You can practically smell the hair...

With the news that Eddie Bauer had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday, we found ourselves wondering: Who was Eddie Bauer, the person -- this man whose name is...

1. WATER SKIS If you're Swedish, you probably credit the countryman who in 1841 patented the vattenskids -- or water skis -- as the inventor of the sport. But the...

What a shame, really, that we have to label it at all. Labels are limits. As helpful as it may be to define an event by slapping a name on...

She was born in Chicago and mostly raised here, too, but you can't really call Jean Thompson's appearance at the Printers Row Lit Fest on Saturday a homecoming -- because...

You are inside Neil Gaiman's mind. (Hands and feet must stay within the car at all times. Management not responsible, etc.) Please note -- now coming into view on your...

She's half Hyde Park, half trailer-park stereotype. She has a philosophy degree from the University of Chicago -- but most of her characters would probably think "Heidegger" is some kind...

Full disclosure: There is a bias stalking this feature. My selection of the week's outstanding paragraph is heavily influenced by the length of certain paragraphs. If it can't fit in...