Our columnist on four stellar new releases. Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first ...

In “A Perfect Frenzy,” Andrew Lawler reveals the hypocrisies of the patriots on the battleground of colonial Virginia.

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What does it take to bury an outdated argument?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 ...

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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.

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?… ...