USC’s Percival Everett wins National Book Award for ‘James’
Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic “Huckleberry Finn.”Published in March to…
I hope reality is catching up to my fiction about a female president
When I was 19 years old, in the early 1980s, I started writing a novel about the daughter of the first female United States president.…
How does Robert Downey Jr. fare in his Broadway debut?
NEW YORK — A friend texted soon after I arrived in New York to see “McNeal,” the new play by Ayad Akhtar at Lincoln Center Theater’s…
Heather Thomas: How a TV star evolved into a behind-the-scenes politico
Heather Thomas arrived at a Santa Monica restaurant and ordered a cheeseburger and a margarita — “top shelf tequila,” she whispered to the waiter. It…
Jill Schary Robinson, writer and mom of UTA’s Jeremy Zimmer, dies
Jill Schary Robinson, a novelist, memoirist, essayist and journalist who was also daughter to one Hollywood executive and mother to another one, died Saturday in…
‘Lady in the Lake’ centers the women at the core of the story
The seeds of “Lady in the Lake” were planted in 1969 with the disappearances and deaths of an 11-year-old Jewish girl and a 33-year-old Black…
The 1999 novel that predicted our (traumatic, relentlessly bleak) future
South African author J.M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize-winning ‘Disgrace’ stacks crisis atop crisis — and depicts its characters learning to live with it anyway. Sound familiar?…
It’s time to invite Sean Baker to the Oscars
You’d think hearing a single word read 34 times would get a little repetitive. And yet ... Newsletter From the Oscars to the Emmys. Get…
The novel ‘Old King’ explores the meaning of ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski today
Book Review Old King By Maxim LoskutoffNorton: 304 pages, $27.99If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org,…
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…
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…
‘The Sympathizer’ review: A moving story about friendship
What is more psychically exhausting, in fiction and I suppose in life, than the story of the double agent, the mole, the traitor embedded among…
Why Don Winslow is retiring from writing after ‘City in Ruins’
On the Shelf City in Ruins By Don WinslowWilliam Morrow: 400 pages, $32 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn…
‘American Fiction’ and ‘Slow Horses’ win USC Scripter Awards
The writers of the Oscar-nominated film “American Fiction” and the Apple TV+ series “Slow Horses” earned top honors at the 36th USC Libraries Scripter Awards…
Poet Phillip B. Williams’ novel ‘Ours’ shows more of a roadmap than a utopia
Book Review Ours By Phillip B. WilliamsViking: 592 pages, $32If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org,…
Opinion: Need a good book? Try one your 9th-grader isn’t allowed to read
I have discovered many wonderful books, mostly in the young adult category, by reading news stories about what’s being banned in public schools these days:…
Almost Surely Dead by Amina Akhtar has a fan in Mindy Kaling
On the Shelf Almost Surely Dead By Amina AkhtarMindy’s Book Studio: 302 pages, $26.96 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may…
Katherine Min’s posthumous second novel ‘The Fetishist’
On the Shelf The Fetishist By Katherine MinG.P. Putnam’s Sons: 304 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn…
10 books to add to your reading list in January
Reading List 10 books for your January reading list If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org,…