Get the latest news, events and more from the Los Angeles Times Book Club, and help us get L.A. reading and talking. Your ultimate L.A. Bookshelf is here — a guide to the 110 essential L.A. books, ...

In “The American School of Spies,” Stephan Talty tells the story of the desperate struggle to preserve antiquities during World War II. By Edward Dolnick Reading recommendations from critics and ...

In his memoir, Simon Paré-Poupart recounts the highs and lows of hauling trash for more than 20 years. By Dwight Garner Chatbots are appropriating our most common rhetorical tics. Yet when it comes to ...

June 3, 2026 • In 'My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein,' the narrator, a writer, actually spends one month trying to understand Stein's genius, how she invented herself, and her relationship with ...

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Each week on The Book Show, host Joe Donahue interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. It is a celebration of both reading and writers. Joe holds interesting conversations ...

As 1968 began, Paul Ehrlich was an entomologist at Stanford University, known to his peers for his groundbreaking studies of the co-evolution of flowering plants and butterflies but almost unknown to ...

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L-R: Sally Field in 'Remarkably Bright Creatures,' Hugh Jackman in 'The Sheep Detectives' and Matt Damon in 'The Odyssey' Netflix/Amazon MGM/Universal Many books will provide backbone to both ...

Creating a roundup of the 25 best-selling books of all time is harder than it sounds. Books—especially those published hundreds of years ago—were published in different editions and translated into ...

L-R: Belmont Cameli in 'Off Campus,' Jennifer Garner in 'The Five Star Weekend' and Anya Taylor-Joy Prime Video, Peacock, Apple TV Several best-selling books will make way for returning TV shows and ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it ...