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Julia Keller: Unpublished Graham Greene mystery appears in The Strand

Like a wily villain, The Strand (strandmag.com) always seems to have something new and tricky up its sleeve. In the issue of the mystery-themed quarterly magazine now on newsstands, you'll find the first installment of a newly discovered work by Graham Greene -- a publishing coup that has brought...

Julia Keller: Confessions of a comics fan: My secret shame

The reader was outraged. The thrust of her question: How dare you?

The Baffler returns: First new issue of Thomas Frank's Chicago-based leftist journal slated for November

Did The Baffler peak too soon? Did that left-leaning, Chicago-based journal of cultural dissent -- so diligent in its sneer at anything that smacked of fake rebellion and corporate posturing that it once called the MoonPie a work of "post-industrial malaise" -- pick the wrong decade for its heyday?

Julia Keller: 'Lessons' from the school of life

Overnight, or so it seemed to David W. Berner, he lost everything: The 52-year-old Naperville resident was laid off from his job as a radio journalist, received word of his father's terminal illness and realized his marriage was over. So he started all over again, becoming a teacher at East Aurora...

Julia Keller: The magical, mystical path linking book and reader

Every book tells a story. Sometimes the best story it tells -- enthralling, astonishing, unexpected -- has nothing to do with the narrative concocted by the author. Surrounding every book is a meta-story, a radiance that shifts and changes with each set of hands that picks it up, flips impatiently...

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