Julia Keller

You get it. You get it like you'd never get it if you weren't standing right here, in a cemetery barely bigger than a postage stamp, in front of the...

Like Lot's wife, you have to look. It is every bit as dreadful as you fear. The three-minute-or-so video of the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl was posted this week...

Most television series have had their season (or series) finales and it's time to see if all the hype was simply tripe: "Ally McBeal" (Fox): Robert Downey Jr. was a...

DEAD ANIMALS I RICK MOHR, "The Balloon Man," Hoffman Estates "I was at a kid's 7th birthday party near Aurora, in an unincorporated area with a lot of field behind...

Dealing Chicago a high-profile loss in the battle for African-American scholars, Michael Eric Dyson, whose broad academic interests range from civil rights to hip-hop, announced Monday that he is leaving...

When Jackson Benson was an earnest young graduate student in the late 1960s, he decided to focus his scholarly work on novelist John Steinbeck and his simple, powerful stories about...

So slyly do the sounds insinuate themselves that you hear them, yes, but you don't really know you're hearing them: the squeaks from 10 pairs of sneakers interacting fiercely, repeatedly,...

A century or so hence, they will come up with the definitive term for it. They will cull from the welter of possible names a single name, a name that...

It ought to be Pittsburgh versus Philadelphia. If there were any justice in the world, any sanity, Sunday's Super Bowl would pit the Steelers against the Eagles. That's because Pittsburgh...

Driven, restless, hungry, sullen, sneaky, doomed. The guy who stares at you from the screen in "Pinero," the guy in the dirty shirt with the needle lolling out of his...