Julia Keller

Let me count the ways. We've got Gibbs and McGee and DiNozzo and Abby and Ducky and Vance. Have I forgotten anyone else in the -- oh, right! And there's...

For years, physicians and public health advocates concerned about brain injury have tried to persuade people to wear helmets while cycling, skateboarding and skiing. Other well-intentioned groups have lectured about...

ARCHITECTURE Lincoln Memorial. Architect Henry Bacon designed this gleaming white temple, whose 36 Doric columns symbolize the states at the start of the Civil War. Daniel Chester French's monumental statue...

Everything seems skimpy these days. Things look pinched, narrow, watered down, washed out, choked off. So much seems to be shrinking: hope, energy, dollars, jobs. Even the horizon looks as...

The work of certain writers is so remarkable that you never forget the first time you read it. The rhythm of the style instantly catches hold of something inside you....

Picture it: A silver-haired Sam Waterston wearing a black baseball cap and a bemused expression, pushing his way through a moving hedge of reporters and photographers outside a Manhattan penthouse....

Reading a Stephen King novel is like watching a Peyton Manning spiral: The question that keeps tugging at you, once you've gotten past the pure pleasure of beholding the thing,...

Of a character in her powerful new novel, "Lark and Termite" (Knopf), Jayne Anne Phillips writes, "She's forgotten nothing and is fiercely herself." It's a sentence that comes complete with...

A recent Lit Life column about "A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books" (2008) by Alex Beam didn't sit right with...