Julia Keller

If, by some unlikely pre-Christmas miracle, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court dropped by my house this evening, I would offer them snacks. And then I would insist that...

The most harrowing scene in the Goodman Theatre's 23rd annual production of "A Christmas Carol" -- the scene that will stick in your mind, long after the ghosts have stopped...

Uncertainty hangs in the air like a chad from a punch-card ballot. I couldn't have used that simile before last week's presidential contest. Now I wield it with suave self-confidence,...

Wayne Booth's book, "For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals" (University of Chicago Press), meets head-on the core question of amateurism. He writes: "If you can be certain...

"And so," my eye doctor said, scooting his chair around to face me and commence the exam, "who're you going to vote for? Bubba or Bill's henchman?" These characterizations suggested...

Walt Whitman once wrote a snotty little poem called "I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." He wrote plenty of splendidly moving verses, too, but trust me: This one is a snicker,...

Had you walked up to me when I was 8 years old and asked what made me happy, I could have given you a quick, unambiguous list: my dog Hero;...

Excuse us, Mr. Famous Big-Deal Artist, but our business is not with you. Kindly step aside, if you please, because we have other people on our minds today: those for...

Vice President Al Gore is in trouble for telling whoppers. The other day he stretched the truth so far that when he lost his grip and the truth snapped back,...

If you stuck a slotted spoon in the iron-bottomed stewpot known as country music, you'd fish out the predictable: heartbreak, lonesome highways, hungover mornings, red sunsets in rear-view mirrors, rodeos...