Julia Keller

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By now, it's a cliche: the disaffected veteran. The guy who comes back from a war and can't settle down, can't sleep, can't hold a job, can't stay married, doesn't...

I hail from a family of arguers. Recreational arguers, you might call them. Most would rather argue than eat. My kinfolk are the kind of people who, if you say,...

I've been polishing off sports biographies and autobiographies since I was a kid, from "Better Scramble Than Lose" (1969) by Fran Tarkenton to "Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of...

Read new reviews of these books at chicagotribune.com/books: *"A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools," by Alec Klein *"Schulz and Peanuts," by David...

Civil War buffs and fiction fans don't often meet on the same rugged terrain -- the former live for blunt fact, while the latter love feeling and nuance -- but...

The light is golden. No, that's not it; "golden" is the wrong word. "Golden" sounds soft and fluffy and angelic, and that's not the true quality of the light illuminating...

In "A Doll's House," the 1879 play by Henrik Ibsen about a woman's passionate quest for independence, the critical, life-altering moment came when she closed a door. For many women...

Everybody hated "Spider-Man 3." That's only a tiny exaggeration -- as slight as one of those wispy filaments leaping out of Peter Parker's wrist -- because a record number of...

They love her. They hate her. Either way, they respect her chances of becoming president -- or else we wouldn't be witnessing a blizzard of books about Sen. Hillary Rodham...