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Book review: 'The Uncoupling'
Meg Wolitzer's new book, "The Uncoupling," asks an implicit but frank question: So, how long could you go without sex?
Book review: 'Familyhood'
I was so ready to dismiss this little book as the musings of a sitcom quipster with not much to add to the national discourse — when,...
The last-minute rapture reading list
It's simple. You want to know about the "rapture"? Read the Bible. Turn to the Book of Revelation.
Book review: 'Everyone's a Winner'
We're living in an age of prize proliferation. It might not feel like it — especially with so many families hit hard by economic...
Book review: 'Popular Crime' by Bill James
Bill James has revolutionized the way baseball mavens think about the game, but his first love has always been death.
Book review: 'The Psychopath Test' by Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson is fascinated by people who are bonkers. And insane people who appear to be normal, and ostensibly sane people doing crazy...
'Go the F— to Sleep' proves a popular lullaby with bleary-eyed adults
The No. 1 book on Amazon.com isn't "Bossypants" by Tina Fey or "Dead Reckoning" by Charlaine Harris — the top New York Times...
10 books for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver
News that the high-profile former first couple of California was splitting last week came as a surprise. What would cause ex-Gov. and action...
Book review: Charlotte Chandler's 'Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography'
It hardly seems possible that there could be room for yet another important biography on so iconic a star as Marlene Dietrich, already the...
Book review: 'Robert Redford: The Biography' by Michael Feeney Callan
Callan's all-but-authorized biography is a flawed look at Redford, especially when he lets the actor, director and environmentalist do the...
Should Joyce Carol Oates have revealed her second marriage?
From the Department of Tempest in a Teapot: In the current issue of the New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates responds, in a letter,...
Jack Black to headline cancer benefit Saturday in Altadena
Sure, there's a literary component, but Jack Black -- comedian, musical satirist and, most recently, Cannes-feted actor -- will be the big...
Book review: 'Between a Rock and a Hot Place' by Tracey Jackson
Sometimes you just want someone to tell it to you straight. You may look and feel better than your grandmother or even your mother did at 50...
Jacket Copy on the Road: The Jack Kerouac house in Orlando
The good news is I found the Jack Kerouac house in Orlando. The bad news is I didn't get to see inside. I know: Florida? Jack Kerouac...
Book review: 'Tangled Webs' by James B. Stewart
For a nation whose romanticized history includes a young George Washington confessing to chopping down a cherry tree because he "cannot tell...
Book review: 'Infinite Reality' by Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson
Humanity may be in the process of being transformed by a virtual revolution, but as Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson tell it in their...
Amazon as publisher, publishers as booksellers
Amazon, the online retailer, has been making moves toward becoming a publisher. Maybe that's not quite right: It has become a publisher.
Bradley Cooper may play the devil in 'Paradise Lost'
John Milton's 17th century epic poem "Paradise Lost" is said to be headed toward the big screen, with Bradley Cooper of "The Hangover"...
On interviewing Francine Prose, Susan Straight and Mona Simpson
"These are the heavy-hitters," Susan Straight overheard a ticket-holder say of the panel, simply called, "The Art of the Novel," at last...
Book Review: 'The Sisters Brothers' by Patrick DeWitt
Two colorful siblings are on a murderous mission in the rough-and-tumble West of 1851 in this graphic and darkly humorous new novel.
Book review: 'Field Gray' by Philip Kerr
One of the many things to admire about Philip Kerr's long-running Bernie Gunther series is the way the novels seamlessly blend the complex...
Book review: 'A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother'
Janny Scott's "A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother" is driven by an unspoken tension — or maybe "question"...
Discoveries
'The Chicken Chronicles' by Alice Walker, 'You Are Free: Stories' by Danzy Senna, and 'an Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir' by Robert...
Book review: Jules Verne's 'The Secret of Wilhem Storitz'
There ought to be a law stipulating that well-meaning relatives may not touch the manuscripts left by their loved ones. It traumatizes a...
Book review: 'Twenty Thirty: The Real Story of What Happens to America'
In his new novel, Albert Brooks imagines a post-earthquake L.A. bailed out by the Chinese in the year 2030.
Festival of Books: Authors and celebrities
Here are some of the panelists and guests who appeared at the Festival of Books last weekend at USC.
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