Raw bulletins addressing dark times

Raw bulletins addressing dark times

The city's iconic bookstores remain essential third places for Angelenos — sanctuaries that pull us away from screen-surfing and back into our minds.

Emily St. John Mandel’s popular books meet a yearning for post-apocalyptic fiction even as they wonder how to have such a thing

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Keeping it going: The Berry Center’s Kentucky Arts and Letters Day and the Nashville’s Southern Festival of Books

Culture and agriculture

Kentucky was a place that I could not leave behind simply by going to another place

Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…

The model collapse scenario threatens to wipe out whatever gains chatbots like Claude enjoyed from being trained on books in the first place.

Re attending to one’s intellectual fundament

With “Coyote vs. Acme,” Ian Frazier, a soft-spoken reporter and humorist, has finally gone Hollywood.

Max D. Lederer Jr., the longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes, announced his retirement, ending a three-decade career at the organization.

Journeys outward and inward

FX dropped a surprise flashback episode of 'The Bear' written by and starring Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.

The former US president will host six episodes of A Great Book for Audible, discussing work from Toni Morrison and John le Carré to James Baldwin Barack Obama is set to host a podcast about books that have “profoundly shaped his worldview and our society”, from Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré. The podcast, called A Great Book with Barack Obama, will launch on Audible on 24 September. Continue reading...