Camilla Läckberg should be better celebrated in the U.S., but her gripping update of a Fay Weldon thriller isn’t updated enough.
The film-critic narrator of his debut novel, “Antkind,” hate Charlie Kaufman, loves his mediocre successors and keeps falling into manholes.
In Leigh Stein’s new novel, “Self Care,” pioneers in “the wellness space” backstab each other, in a satire that already feels 100 years old.
In Lynn Steger Strong’s ‘Want,’ a writer, teacher and mother faces up to her own privilege and the precariousness of her middle-class life.
Bestsellers List Sunday, July 5, 2020
Reading in the time of coronavirus
Over the last three months, 17 writers provided diaries to the Times of their days in isolation, followed by weeks of protest. This is their story.
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.
With curbside pickup and even some in-store visits available, there’s no reason to buy books at an online mega-store. Here’s a list of locals instead.
Like their peers across the U.S., booksellers in L.A. are adjusting to partially reopening their stores for curbside pickup amid the coronavirus.
As California bookstores gradually being to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, here’s a closer look at the state of the industry.
We know. We know. You want to look away, but you can’t.
Emily St. John Mandel, Susan Orlean, T.C Boyle, Marlon James and others share apocalypse reading picks.
It felt like abandoning a child. But for the first time in 20 years, we can park in our garage.
A coalition of L.A.-based literary organizations and allies sent a letter to L.A. City Council Monday requesting financial aid during the pandemic.
More on Books
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Journalist Ben Ehrenreich lost track of time under Trump. His new ‘Road Map for the End of Time’ looks for answers in philosophies and disasters.
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Journalist Bonnie Tsui, author of “Why We Swim,” joins the L.A. Times Book Club for a July 28 virtual meetup.
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A New York state judge has temporarily blocked publication of a tell-all book by Donald Trump’s niece after the president’s brother sued to stop it.
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HBO won a reportedly intense auction among 17 bidders to turn Brit Bennett’s acclaimed second novel, “The Vanishing Half,” into a limited TV series.
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Rudolfo Anaya, the New Mexico author of the classic Chicano coming-of-age novel ‘Bless Me, Ultima,’ has died.
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Jim Carrey’s new semi-true novel, “Memoirs and Misinformation,” is unlike any show biz chronicle you’ve read.
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Festival of Books
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In light of public health concerns related to the coronavirus and out of an abundance of caution, the Los Angeles Times is postponing the Festival of Books and Food Bowl events,
The 25th annual Festival of Books will be presented in association with the University of Southern California, on the USC campus, the weekend of Oct. 3-4, 2020.
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Kwan has two TV shows in the works, a new novel, “Sex and Vanity,” an L.A. residence and a plan to “showcase diversity in a variety of ways.”
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Sylvia Moreno-Garcia’s twist on the classic gothic horror tradition taps into elemental fears and evils that are ancient and also sadly timely.
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Walter Thompson-Hernández, author of “The Compton Cowboys,” joined Metro reporter Angel Jennings for a virtual chat about his new book.
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Paul Tremblay wrote “Survivor Song,” about a rabies-like pandemic and armed conspiracists who make it worse, before COVID-19 was even a thing.
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The current issue of Strand Magazine will give readers the chance to discover an unfinished story by “Little Women” author Louisa May Alcott.
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“The Compton Cowboys” author Walter Thompson-Hernández joins the Los Angeles Times Book Club for a virtual meetup.
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Pavlina Tcherneva talks about “The Case for a Job Guarantee,” and how public-sector work can pull us out of crises both immediate and long-term.
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Emily Temple’s “The Lightness,” about a seeker who loses more than she finds, is a beguiling novel after Donna Tartt’s heart, if not her plotting.
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Bestsellers List Sun., June 28, 2020
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Richardson was known for his elegant biographies on Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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The prominent theorist and author of “The First” also tackles Twitter and deep fakes — and asks if the 1st Amendment is obsolete.
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A potted history of author-suppressing heads of state — from Augustus to Xi Jinping — makes Donald Trump look like a litigious lightweight.
Recent hardcover fiction and nonfiction lists.