Julia Keller

Literature exists to tell us what other people's mornings are like. There are additional things too, of course, that fiction can reveal from somebody else's perspective: life, death, sex, joy,...

Literature exists to tell us what other people's mornings are like. There are additional things too, of course, that fiction can reveal from somebody else's perspective: life, death, sex, joy,...

Her publisher surely meant well, but the cover of Anne Tyler's new novel "The Beginner's Goodbye" (Knopf) is all wrong. The cover — a pair of elegant cups and saucers...

Her publisher surely meant well, but the cover of Anne Tyler's new novel "The Beginner's Goodbye" (Knopf) is all wrong. The cover — a pair of elegant cups and saucers...

There is a hierarchy of personal catastrophe, an informal but definitive ranking of all the terrible things that can happen, moving through categories that might be labeled "Worst Thing" to...

There is a hierarchy of personal catastrophe, an informal but definitive ranking of all the terrible things that can happen, moving through categories that might be labeled "Worst Thing" to...

The cat was never the same. Her name was Zelda, and all I can say is: Sorry, Zelda. But the real apology ought to come from Christian Laettner. One minute...

The cat was never the same. Her name was Zelda, and all I can say is: Sorry, Zelda. But the real apology ought to come from Christian Laettner. One minute...