Julia Keller

"My Father's Secret War," the haunting 2007 memoir by Lucinda Franks that was published earlier this month in paperback by Hyperion, is a sort of family detective story. The unsolved...

Some conflicts of interest are so massive and heavy and all-pervasive that they double-back on themselves and become, instead of disqualifications, the opposite. They are perverse qualifications. The closeness to...

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When she arrived in this country from India in 1976, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's initial glimpse of the United States came right here in Chicago. And her first impression? "It was...

Nobody would accuse the late Mayor Richard J. Daley of being an eloquent man -- he could, like his son, the current occupant of the city's highest electoral office, do...

With a wheeze and a clank, with a whir and a click and a screech of some sprockets and pulleys and belts, with a great belch of blue smoke and...

He's at it again. He won't leave me alone. Can you file a restraining order against an author who's been dead for 46 years? Probably not, you say? Rotten luck....

If you sneaked into Charles Baxter's home late at night -- mind you, I'm not recommending this, so if you do it and get caught, don't call me for bail...

They met on Oct. 23, 1960, in Madison, Wis., at a party sponsored by the University of Wisconsin's English department. She was a shy first-year graduate student from upstate New...

Last week, executives at HarperCollins Publishers announced that they would be giving away some of the company's products for free. Is that any way to run a business? If it's...