Julia Keller

Serena Williams reacts after defeating Danka Kovinic of Montenegro during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis championship on Aug. 29, 2022, in New York.

Julia Keller: Why is ‘quiet quitting’ a thing for everyone, including Serena Williams? Quit out loud.

September 19, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.

There's not much Serena Williams can't do. Win tennis matches? Raise a family? Run a thriving venture capital firm? Be an international symbol of grace and strength and resilience? Easy-peasy....

‘Out of the Wild Night’: With a splish and a splot and a shree, here comes a ghostly whodunit with heart

May 9, 2019 at 11:48 p.m.

If ghosts were ever to unionize — and can’t you just imagine Local 187 of the International Brotherhood of the Writhing and Shrieking Deceased? — among their demands would be...

Remembering E.L. Doctorow, author of ‘Ragtime’ and so much more

May 9, 2019 at 10:34 p.m.

When he was 16 years old, Edgar Lawrence Doctorow boarded a train at New York's Penn Station. His destination was a strange and mysterious place about which he had read,...

"Go Set a Watchman," Harper Lee's follow-up to "To Kill a Mockingbird" is flawed -- but it comes to us at just the right historical moment.

Review: ‘Go Set a Watchman’ by Harper Lee

May 9, 2019 at 10:34 p.m.

By some intricate miracle of timing, by some random hiccup of destiny or lurch of fate — or maybe even divine intervention, a possibility way above my pay grade to...

Sergio De La Pava, seen here at the 30th Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland, recently released his second novel, "Personae."

Review: ‘Personae’ by Sergio De La Pava

May 9, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

Joseph Epstein got it right. With wit and maybe just a smidgen of venom — his patented brew — the veteran essayist and literary critic based in Evanston described the...

Review: ‘Personae’ by Sergio De La Pava

August 24, 2021 at 9:14 p.m.

Joseph Epstein got it right. With wit and maybe just a smidgen of venom — his patented brew — the veteran essayist and literary critic based in Evanston described the...

Review: ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’ by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)

May 9, 2019 at 8:58 p.m.

Human nature being what it is — a swampy mess of meanness, envy and spite, in case you were wondering — are we surprised that a lot of people would...

Review: ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’ by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)

August 24, 2021 at 7:04 p.m.

Human nature being what it is — a swampy mess of meanness, envy and spite, in case you were wondering — are we surprised that a lot of people would...

Review: ‘The Shining Girls’ by Lauren Beukes

May 9, 2019 at 8:54 p.m.

Serial killers leave me cold. And it's not just because they relentlessly slaughter defenseless human beings; that, of course, is a definite turnoff, but we often have to put up...

Review: ‘The Shining Girls’ by Lauren Beukes

August 24, 2021 at 5:46 p.m.

Serial killers leave me cold. And it's not just because they relentlessly slaughter defenseless human beings; that, of course, is a definite turnoff, but we often have to put up...

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