Wally Lamb’s first novel in nine years, “The River Is Waiting,” opens with a devastating scene in which a troubled but devoted stay-at-home dad spikes his coffee with two splashes ...
Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel, “The Director,” an engrossing meditation on the exigencies of art and the dangers of artistic complicity, lands in the United States at a good time. Which ...
For decades, English novelist Jane Austen has been a constant source of inspiration for filmmakers and TV creators looking to adapt her work, but also authors who want to expand ...
Did Bill Belichick, a 73-year-old intransigent, forever controlling-the-narrative football coach with a record six Super Bowl titles, seemingly cede the reins to his girlfriend, 24-year-old former cheerleader Jordon Hudson? So ...
Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your May reading list. Each year in a sign of hope, garden perennials return, even when they’ve ...
Hardcover fiction 1. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (Berkley: $29) Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of an heiress. 2. James by Percival ...
At the New York Public Library’s annual Library Lunch, former New Yorker editor Tina Brown said there’s an obvious best seller waiting to be bestowed on one lucky biographer: the ...
To make it as a fashion model is one thing; to endure in such an intensely competitive field, as Christie Brinkley has done, is quite another. It means having to ...
On New Year’s Day 2023, Jeremy Renner died. “I could see my lifetime. I could see everything all at once. It could have been for ten seconds; could have been ...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer drew a huge crowd to USC’s Bovard Theater at the L.A. Times Festival of Books on Sunday, where she addressed her recent photo-op with President Trump ...
