“The Ocean at the End of the Lane”: Neil Gaiman returns
In his first adult novel in eight years, the master of modern fantasy tells the story of a lonely, bookish boy
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 9:15 PM UTC 36Entertainment Books, What to Read
Is there a "liberal bias" in academia?
Sociologist Neil Gross dispels the myth that college campuses are overrun with lefty East Coast intellectuals
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Colum McCann spins out
The leaden "Transatlantic" suggests he's exhausted the themes that made "Let the Great World Spin" so readable
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 7:00 PM UTCLife LA Review of Books, Books, Novels
The theme song of the radical right
How "Battle Hymn of the Republic" -- Reagan's favorite song -- became the background music of the modern GOP
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 5:30 PM UTC 35Media Music, American History
Joseph Ellis: 1776, the summer America was born
Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph Ellis on Washington, Adams and the months when soldiers and statesmen forged America
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 1:59 PM UTC 15Politics Revolutionary War
Lynda Obst: Hollywood’s completely broken
When you stopped buying DVDs and started streaming on Netflix, Hollywood's economics changed. So did the movies
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 7:30 PM UTC 182Technology Books, Movies, Editor's Picks
How we do it: Maybe monogamy isn’t natural!
From incest to sperm competition and polyamory, anatomy -- not social arrangements -- explain how a species mates
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 44Life Editor's Pick, Reproduction
Colum McCann: Fiction helps us keep faith in humanity
The author discusses the thin line between history and fiction, and how Frederick Douglass anticipated Obama
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 5:00 PM UTCLife LA Review of Books, Books, Novels
Jonathan Franzen to Frank Bruni: “Strong numbers” of women write books
The novelist wrote an abrupt letter to the Times saying that sexism is worse in theater than it is in publishing
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 3:40 PM UTC 14Media Jonathan Franzen, frank bruni
From Fox News to Rush: Secrets of the right’s lie machine
Conservative media plays by its rules, and bends truth to back whatever argument they’ve decided to make that day
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 2:45 PM UTC 255Entertainment Books, Media Criticism, Fox News
Al Jazeera: The most-feared news network
Al Jazeera is well-funded and doesn't need to make money. But its prospects, here and in Middle East, are uncertain
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 10:00 AM UTCTechnology Books, Editor's Picks, Al Jazeera
Russians who raised the dead
In the years before World War II, Russian scientists attempted to revive fish and dog heads, and even a human being
Friday, Jun 14, 2013 11:30 PM UTC 22Entertainment zombies, Russia
“We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”: Growing up primate
Karen Joy Fowler's funny, powerful novel of human-animal relations finds its ideal audiobook narrator
Thursday, Jun 13, 2013 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books, The Listener, Audiobooks
How werewolf erotica found its way to prison
A hardened prisoner was comfortable enough reading werewolf romances that he sued for the right -- and won
Thursday, Jun 13, 2013 12:00 AM UTCEntertainment Books, Readers and Reading
Memoirist Marie Calloway: “I don’t like the privileging of other topics over sex”
How a 23-year-old author shattered taboos surrounding sexuality in print -- and freaked out the critics
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 2:29 PM UTC 43Life marie calloway, Books, Memoirs
Must-see morning clip: Daniel Bergner explains what women want on “Colbert”
The "What Do Women Want?" author argues that contrary to popular wisdom, women are more promiscuous than men VIDEO
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 1:18 PM UTCLife Video, Daniel Bergner
“One and Only” author: “It’s like I’m suggesting that people should have aborted their own children”
Author Lauren Sandler discusses the blowback she's gotten for suggesting that only children might be just fine
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 1:57 PM UTC 16Life one and only, lauren sandler
Today in silly book reviews: Let’s all fight about Alice Munro
The veteran writer's now enough of an institution to inspire takedowns. She doesn't deserve them
Monday, Jun 10, 2013 8:15 PM UTC 18Entertainment Alice Munro, Books, Fiction
“Queen of the Air”: Love and death in the big top
The extravagant true story of the Brad and Angelina of the circus, their great romance and secret sufferings
Sunday, Jun 9, 2013 10:00 PM UTCEntertainment What to Read, Books, Nonfiction
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood “Crack-Up”
While the "Gatsby" author was wary of Hollywood glitz and glamour, he wrote some of his most enduring fiction there
Sunday, Jun 9, 2013 3:00 PM UTCLife LA Review of Books, Books
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