MLB adds Negro League stats and the record book gets an update
The numbers aren’t complete. Too much barnstorming and too many impromptu ball games for every home run and earned run to have been documented by…
Opinion: The ideal beach read? It’s not what you’d expect
I’ve been a reader for nearly all of my life, yet I always feel perplexed at the beginning of summer, when the term “beach reads”…
Why do books have chapters? How writing changed from antiquity to children’s books and streaming
Nicholas Dames remembers the first time he really got thinking about a very obvious but largely invisible writing device.It was around two decades ago, when…
Why I’d still book a £99 Wowcher holiday despite checking out of our hotel after an hour
We left our Lake Garda hotel after one hour but there's one simple reason I'd still recommend eager travellers look at the popular mystery holiday…
German author wins International Booker Prize for ‘Kairos’
LONDON — German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love…
This local bookseller is publishing L.A’s untold stories
Donato Martinez reads his poetry at the Libros Lincoln Heights bookshop. On a Saturday evening in late April, the door of the Libros Lincoln Heights…
Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann wins Book of the Year at NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
Yankunytjatjara poet Ali Cobby Eckermann has won the top prize at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards for her "stunning" verse novel She Is the Earth.Eckermann…
Challenge Cup: Huddersfield Giants 10-46 Warrington Wolves – Wire book Wigan final
Huddersfield: Connor, Swift, Marsters, Naiqama, Wallis, Lolohea, Clune, Wilson, Milner, English, Muchie, Cudjoe, Yates.Interchanges: Golding, Ikahihifo, Rushton, SalabioWarrington: Dufty, Thewlis, King, Tai, Ashton, Williams, Drinkwater,…
Saracens 10-20 Sale: Sharks book play-off spot
Saracens: Daly, Lewington, Cinti, Tompkins, Parton, Farrell, van Zyl, M Vunipola, George, Judge, Itoje, Tizard, Gonzalez, Earl, Willis.Replacements: Dan, Mawi, Riccioni, Isiekwe, McFarland, B Vunipola,…
Between ‘Shōgun’ and ‘The Bear,’ Emmys defy classification
Is a television series really a comedy if you’re in tears at the end of nearly every episode? Not the “I laughed so hard, I…
Scott Morrison says Donald Trump’s given ‘warm reception’ to AUKUS pact after Trump Tower meeting
Donald Trump has given a "warm reception" to the AUKUS defence pact during a meeting with Scott Morrison in New York, the former prime minister…
We speak to cult legend Alejandro Jodorowsky, coming to L.A.
“I am an earthling — after that I’m galactic and then I’m universal,” Alejandro Jodorowsky tells me in Spanish from his home in Paris during…
L.A.’s only Spanish-language kids’ bookstore will soon get más grande
When Chiara Arroyo and Celene Navarrete decided to sell Spanish-language children’s books in 2012, they weren’t worried about customer demand. As mothers with kids at…
Kristi Noem, who shot her dog, to speak at California GOP convention
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, in the headlines recently for recounting in her new book how she shot her dog, is scheduled to speak Saturday…
Dr. Cyril Wecht, who argued more than 1 shooter killed JFK, dies
PITTSBURGH — Dr. Cyril Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination…
Harry & Meghan wrap Nigeria tour with polo visit – as Prince’s memoir Spare loses out at British Book Awards
PRINCE Harry went to the polo with Meghan on the last day of their Nigerian tour — as his memoir Spare lost at the British…
Sean Burroughs, former Long Beach Little League star, dies at 43
Sean Burroughs, who pitched back-to-back no-hitters in the Little League World Series in leading his Long Beach team to consecutive championships and who then followed…
System of a Down’s Serj Tankian talks about band’s future and activism in new book
Serj Tankian is a man of many talents. Aside from being the lead singer of rock band System of a Down, he’s also a solo…
Opinion: How many ways can a memoir backfire? Ask Kristi Noem
Not to beat a dead, ah, horse, but how can we ignore the spectacle that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has made of herself during…
Whoopi Goldberg on grieving her mom and brother’s deaths
On the Shelf Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me By Whoopi GoldbergBlackstone: 258 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our…