New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon ...

Bill Gates’s first memoir; new novels by Ali Smith, Anne Tyler and TJ Klune; a Booker Prize nominee and more.

It’s an interesting conceit for Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou in his new book, Dealing with the Dead – but it’s not his strongest work ...

Simply put, Mixbook remains the best service of the five we tested for making photo books. While some competitors excelled at one thing or another, Mixbook does just about everything right. Its ...

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.

1920: The New York Yankees announce the purchase of Babe Ruth from the Red Sox, who’d won three World Series titles in the previous five seasons but wouldn’t win another until 2004 ...

Ruth Langsford has shared a major update with fans concerning her mum’s health, after she was rushed to hospital three weeks ago with a broken pelvis. Joan, 94, suffered the painful injury after ...

This is the day, 105 years ago, it was announced that Harry Frazee, the owner of the Boston Red Sox, had sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. There are a lot of points of light in baseball history.

RUTH Langsford has shared a major health update, three weeks after her mum was admitted to hospital for a broken pelvis. Joan, 94, suffered a recent fall and broke her pelvis, with Ruth, 64 ...

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 ...