This month’s KELOLAND Living Book Club selection examines the history of the Sackler family, including the founding of Purdue Pharma, its role in the marketing of pharmaceuticals, and the ...

What does it take to bury an outdated argument? The thought occurred while reading Motherland, one of a series of recent ...

The new book was approved by a committee of thirteen clerics who had met during the previous September and October. It was drafted by Thomas Cranmer, who had been working privately on a new liturgy ...

Creating a roundup of the 25 best-selling books of all time is harder than it sounds. Books—especially those published hundreds of years ago—were published in different editions and translated ...

Your TBR list is getting longer... The simple joy of reading a book can inspire so much. While we’re turning their pages, we use our imaginations to live inside entire worlds with its characters.

The Roman Empire lowered IQ levels across Europe according to a new ... lead pollution and health impacts we have identified . . . were sufficient to change history.” ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. Another year of reading has come and gone, leaving mental trails of ...

Saul Loebmandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images I recently learned of a viral social-media trend suggesting men spend inordinate amounts of time thinking about the Roman Empire. There’s a sly inference ...

Suddenly there was a wave of noise. Thousands of fans cheered as the theme to the duo’s podcast, The Rest is History, started playing. Sandbrook shook his head, thinking: “What on Earth?… ...

The Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip had been declared a military zone, which allowed the Israeli army to deny access to Israeli citizens other than residents. They were thus able to exclude ...