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Book review: 'The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine' by Alina Bronsky
You think you've got mother problems. Meet Rosa, Tartar matriarch and Mommy Dearest.
Britain's Telegraph ordered to pay $100,000 over book review
The Daily Telegraph's parent company was ordered Tuesday to pay more than $100,000 in damages over a book review.
A scandalous story: New Rupert Murdoch book on the way
The phone-hacking scandal sending shock waves through Rupert Murdoch's media empire will be the subject of a new book by Guardian reporter...
Book review: 'The Land at the End of the World' by António Lobo Antunes
Remember Angola? Let us rephrase the question: Have you heard of the Angolan war for independence, 1961-75, that brutal, pigheaded attempt...
Move over Captain America, make room for the Fighting American
Even though he's probably the best known, Captain America isn't the only patriotic superhero. Joe SimonJoe and Jack Kirby, the team that...
Book review: 'At the Devil's Table'
If you're a regular reader of crime fiction but generally avoid true crime books because they too often read like footnoted legal briefs,...
The Reading Life: Notes from underground
I don't have much use for driving. Growing up in Manhattan, I wasn't raised with it, and even after 20 years in Southern California, I...
Subscribe or the puppy gets it
Slake isn't really threatening this adorable little puppy. But it would like you to subscribe, and this newborn is coincidentally in the...
A new 'Hunger Games' movie poster! OMG!
Some people will be very excited about this. Other people will see an embedded flash file and think, huh, well, I suppose it's better than...
An overprotective mother and pen pal
Like many boys, Adam Chester's most embarrassing moments occurred in middle school, courtesy of his dear mom. He was changing gym clothes...
Book review: 'On Black Sisters Street'
In Chika Unigwe's novel "On Black Sisters Street," the snow-covered streets of Antwerp, Belgium, are a beacon of freedom to the four...
Borders finds no buyer, moves toward liquidation
Borders is seeking court approval for a liquidation plan for its remaining brick-and-mortar bookstores after failing to receive any bids...
Book Review: 'Robopocalypse'
If there's such a thing as voodoo in literary circles, a lot of jealous sci-fi writers are probably burying needles into tiny Daniel H....
'Forever,' by Maggie Stiefvater
The last book in Maggie Stiefvater's 'Shiver' trilogy pulsates with tension, emotion and, of course, romance.
Book Review: 'Rebels in Paradise' by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
The volume, subtitled 'The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s,' includes details on seminal Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp exhibitions,...
Book review: 'Fire Monks' by Colleen Morton Busch
In the summer of 2008, a wildfire burning in California's Los Padres National Forest swept down on Tassajara Hot Springs, a historic...
Carmageddon reading list: 19 books about the joys and terrors of transportation
Carmageddon is going to be bad. Nobody knows how bad, exactly, but when the 405 Freeway is closed through the Sepulveda Pass this weekend,...
Book review: 'A Dance With Dragons' by George R.R. Martin
George R.R. Martin's "A Dance With Dragons," the fifth book in the hugely popular Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, is one of the most...
Jaycee Dugard's memoir 'A Stolen Life' shoots to No. 1 on Amazon
After a primetime interview with Diane Sawyer Sunday night, Jaycee Dugard's memoir "A Stolen Life" shot to the No. 1 bestseller spot on...
The Reading Life: Ellen Willis' vinyl deeps
I've long considered Ellen Willis something of a hero. I hope I live longer than she did (Willis died in 2006, at 64), but otherwise, it's...
Book Review: 'Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias'
The remarkable (and remarkably unappreciated) female athlete gets her due in Don Van Natta Jr.'s biography.
Book review: 'A Death in Summer' by Benjamin Black
It starts with a dead man. Rich, powerful and headless, Richard Jewell is sprawled across his desk, his hands still grasping one of his...
Book review: 'Dogfish Memory' by Joseph A. Dane
Joseph Dane probably didn't know that he was injecting valuable lifeblood into the memoir form when he wrote "Dogfish Memory." He was just...
Book Review: 'The Quotable Hitchens'
Through his Vanity Fair essays, his books and his television appearances, Christopher Hitchens has become one of our leading provocateurs,...
French novelist plans to file attempted-rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn
French writer Tristane Banon, a novelist and journalist, plans to file attempted-rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday, her...
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