Jonathon Keats

Frog Life is out of whack

It may drive ecologists crazy to talk about a balance in nature. But it's more necessary than ever
By Jonathon Keats Jul 7, 2009

  • Craig Venter is the future

    The most groundbreaking science is being done outside academia and government. And the egomaniacal geneticist is leading the way.
    By Jonathon Keats December 5, 2007

  • "Proust Was a Neuroscientist"

    Did novelist George Eliot anticipate the ability of the brain to grow new cells? Did chef Auguste Escoffier foretell the science of the palate? Jonah Lehrer thinks so.
    By Jonathon Keats November 20, 2007

  • Before Paris and Nicole

    Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley aren't just relics of the Wild West, argues "Lonesome Dove" author Larry McMurtry -- they're America's original celebrities.
    By Jonathon Keats June 16, 2005

  • The king's word

    In "God's Secretaries," author Adam Nicolson tells how James I manipulated 48 translators to create the supreme achievement in the English language: The Bible.
    By Jonathon Keats May 30, 2003

  • "The Spinster and the Prophet" by A.B. McKillop

    In the 1920s, judges ridiculed a Canadian woman who said H.G. Wells plagiarized her book, but a modern scholar finds her case convincing.
    By Jonathon Keats November 7, 2002

  • Not-so-sweet inspiration

    In Francine Prose's new book "The Lives of the Muses," the woman who triumphs is the one who refuses to submit.
    By Jonathon Keats September 18, 2002

  • "You Send Me" by Patricia T. O'Conner & Stewart Kellerman

    Two former New York Times editors explain how to express yourself correctly when writing online -- but why should we listen to them?
    By Jonathon Keats August 26, 2002

  • "After Shakespeare" by John Gross, ed.

    Victor Hugo raised him in a séance, Voltaire ripped him off and Byron called him a vulgar dog. The world's great writers just can't leave Shakespeare alone.
    By Jonathon Keats August 7, 2002

  • The death of etiquette

    For proof positive that "gracious living" is now extinct, look no further than the new revision of Amy Vanderbilt's classic guide.
    By Jonathon Keats May 29, 2002

  • Return to sender

    A collection of letters to J.D. Salinger, many from well-known writers, shows how the author of "Catcher in the Rye" went from man to myth.
    By Jonathon Keats April 17, 2002

  • "Dracula's" secretary

    The resurfaced manuscript of Bram Stoker's legendary vampire novel reminds us that even a hack can create an immortal tale.
    By Jonathon Keats April 17, 2002

  • "Death and the Maiden"

    By Jonathon Keats
    March 6, 2002

  • Death and the maiden

    Far from an article of bondage, the corset has been an instrument of liberation.
    By Jonathon Keats March 1, 2002

  • Straight from the heart

    The greatest love letters of all time share some techniques with direct-mail advertising, but the letters had a higher success rate.
    By Jonathon Keats February 12, 2002

  • Apocalypse made easy

    A top-secret U.S. government scenario for the aftermath of nuclear war reveals something truly scary -- cockeyed optimism.
    By Jonathon Keats February 7, 2002

  • Who was Mona seducing?

    What does this Renaissance temptress, seemingly impervious to changing taste, tell us about the enduring nature of our own desire?
    By Jonathon Keats November 26, 2001

  • The opposite of sex

    Andy Warhol, ultimate icon of pop, made painting an orgy and pornography an art form. But you'll never guess what he did between the sheets.
    By Jonathon Keats September 28, 2001

  • For the love of literature

    Scott Fitzgerald stole Zelda's ideas, plagiarized her diaries and even pushed her into an affair. He was arguably the worst husband of his generation -- and that made him its best author.
    By Jonathon Keats August 25, 2001

  • War paint

    Two recent books -- "The Femme's Guide to the Universe" and "On the Trail of the Women Warriors" -- explore femme fatales, latex, the invincibility of waterproof mascara and Amazons.
    By Jonathon Keats August 28, 2000

  • In between life and death

    The art of medical history shows the precarious position of physicians.
    By Jonathon Keats April 6, 2000

  • Letters to the Editor

    Does Christianity need a hipster bible? Plus: Irrational fretting over cyberslacking; WTO articles discuss everything but trade itself.
    Letters to the Editor December 6, 1999

  • "The Pathology of Lies"

    A Tina Brown from hell hacks her way to the top -- literally.
    By Ivan Nahem May 12, 1999

  • I May Be Some Time: Ice and The English Imagination

    Jonathon Keats reviews 'I May Be Some Time' by Francis Spufford
    By Jonathon Keats December 12, 1997
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