Books
Giving a National Book Foundation award to Stephen King is only the latest chapter in the dumbing down of our culture.
Sept. 19, 2003
Movies
‘The Brothers Bloom’
May 15, 2009
I was outraged after reading Harold Bloom’s Sept. 19 commentary, “For the World of Letters, It’s a Horror.”
Sept. 23, 2003
The best thing about this innovative novel is the deceptively simple idea behind it: to radically compress James Joyce’s polymathic and daunting tome, “Ulysses,” and extract from its weighty allusiveness a bare-bones narrative of Leopold Bloom, Joyce’s central character and modern Everyman.
June 13, 1993
California
In the hills of Lake Elsinore, children carried drooping apricot-colored poppies while panting dogs ran alongside them, their paws tainted orange.
March 14, 2019
World & Nation
A New York lawyer who has long been an advocate for improved AIDS health care will become executive director of AIDS Project Los Angeles, officials of the nonprofit service agency announced Tuesday.
Dec. 11, 1991
Opinion
The literary holiday June 16 celebrates James Joyce’s great conflation of life and art “Ulysses.” This year the global revels — virtual, for the most part — will be more the latter than the former.
June 16, 2020
Obituaries
Night after night, Lynne Westmore Bloom clung to the rocks above the Malibu Canyon tunnel, preparing her canvas.
Jan. 9, 2017
Watch L.A.
March 9, 2022