Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school's "first" hip-hop ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

She is one of many authors who lost their homes in January. “Surely,” she says, “readers would love nothing more than to send ...

Reared in Delaware by a World War II Marine vet prone to domestic violence and a mother lost to amphetamine addiction, Crumb ...

The fractured sense of time that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates challenges literary convention. It also reflects a world in flux ...

Producing something this stupid is not the work of a day; it is the achievement of a lifetime — relying on decades of ...

Music, matriarchs, and modernism are the themes of this month's book recommendations. This April, we're looking at the latest ...

Johnson and Bilton have scoured tens of thousands of pages of court transcripts and federal investigation files never before seen by the public to tell the story of Wilford “Nappy” Pulawa, Hawaii's ...

New biography of Boston-born Alexander, who made her name in Florence with her delicate illustrations of Italian folk ballads, brings her out of the shadow of her friendship with John Ruskin ...

New Yorker writer David Denby has come up with four names to essentially fashion a group biography around. He picked Mel ...

The American dream defines a land where "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each, ...

In his new memoir, the chef and founder of the humanitarian aid organization World Central Kitchen offers life lessons and ...