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Barely halfway into the prologue of her new memoir, Neko Case has already confessed to performing while in the early stages of a yeast infection, her touring diet disaster of...

This anxious century has not given people much to feel optimistic about—yet most of us resist pessimism. Things must improve. They will get better. They have to. But when it...

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Of all the people who might come to mind while watching Donald Trump deliver his inaugural address, the French postmodernist thinker Michel Foucault would not seem obvious. But it was...

“This will definitely end my career.” That was Naomi Watts’ initial response to the prospect of writing her first book, “Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About...

In 1956, the editor William Maxwell was having some trouble with beetles in his roses. “hen I come on the shreds of one that was exquisite in the morning and...

Meghan Markle’s team reportedly shopped a book about her life “post-divorce” from Prince Harry — despite the couple not having split up. People who work for the Duchess of Sussex...

I don’t believe in prescience. I don’t believe, for instance, that when Octavia E. Butler began to write her 1993 novel, “Parable of the Sower,” she was working with a...

Lou Mathews is unequivocal in his devotion to Los Angeles and its environs. “I love it — and I don’t understand people who don’t,” says the welcoming, white-bearded Mathews, 78,...

Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County on Thursday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books. Over the last nine days, seven fires have broken...