Julia Keller

Fred Hoyle: Beyond the 'Big Bang' If stars could talk, this is what they might have said to Fred Hoyle: "Shhhh." But he told their secrets anyway. The British astronomer,...

In an interesting confluence of the calendar and the culture, we are approaching Labor Day, a holiday honoring dedication to work, just as Gary Condit is being pressured to leave...

Has Gore Vidal lost his mind? I'm sorry to pose the question so rudely, but that's precisely how it came to me: Is one of the world's finest writers and...

I didn't know her. I didn't know her, but I knew her. You probably knew her, too. I didn't know Christina Sandmeyer, 22, the young Evanston woman found dead earlier...

President Bush, we are reliably informed, is "thinking" about the issue of allowing federal funds to be used for embryonic stem cell research. I insist upon the quotation marks because...

If I advised you to see "Bully," the new film about a group of casually homicidal teenagers with beautiful bodies and withered souls, and if I further advised you that...

The casket looked large, exceedingly so for a vessel bearing a woman who had been slender, even somewhat gaunt, in her later years. But then again, caskets always look too...

Among the least felicitous phrases in the modern lexicon is "senior citizen." The words themselves have a slightly serpentine, even sinister ring, with that double-barreled "s" sound and then that...

When a relationship hits the skids, you're apt to wonder what went wrong. Going to the theater is simply a more intense, distilled version of a romantic rendezvous; thus when...

The folks at Time magazine are spoiling for a fight. They're just itching for it. In this week's edition they unveil a new feature called "America's Best" that will select...