A Clayton Kershaw biography and more baseball book recommendations
Good morning and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m novelist and punk historian Jim Ruland, and this week we’re celebrating America’s pastime.…
How Keith Haring’s art transcended his untimely death
Book Review Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring By Brad GoochHarperCollins: 512 pages, $40 If you buy books linked on our site, The…
Jim Beard dead: Steely Dan keyboardist was 63
Keyboardist Jim Beard, who spent more than a decade of his life playing for rock group Steely Dan, has died. The band, formed by Walter…
Adam Shatz on his new biography of radical thinker Frantz Fanon
On the Shelf The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon By Adam ShatzFSG: 464 pages, $32 If you buy books linked on our…
Naomi Osaka biography has new details as she stages comeback
On the Shelf Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice By Ben RothenbergDutton: 496 pages, $35 If you buy books linked…
Key takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography
On the Shelf Elon Musk By Walter IsaacsonSimon & Schuster: 688 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn…
Elon Musk, Grimes have a secret third child, biography says
Elon Musk and Grimes privately welcomed a third child, the tech mogul confirmed Saturday via X (the social media platform owned by Musk and formerly…
The first biography of influential, shadowy rocker Leon Russell
Review Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History By Bill JanovitzHachette, 592 pages, $31 If you buy books…
Hong Kong court convicts three members of Tiananmen vigil group for security offence, as publisher behind Xi biography released
Three former members of a Hong Kong group that organised annual vigils to mark China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been found guilty of not complying with…