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 ...

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.

Even in the 21st-century digital age, books haven’t lost their importance; they are still a reliable source for gathering information. Although we can now carry thousands of e-books on mobile devices ...

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 ...

Buying books is a thrill, but traditional ink-and-paper quickly gobbles up space on your shelves. Fortunately, modern bookworms have come up with modern solutions. The e-reader with an E Ink ...

The best part about starting a new year? Forgetting all the books you never got around to reading in the past 12 months and discovering all the ones you can look forward to during the next 12.

Making resolutions is easy. Making them stick? Not so much. That’s why we’ve combed through the newest self-help books to bring you the 12 most useful published now through April. We’ve found advice ...

In talks with Zhu Rongji, then the Chinese prime minister, he did, in fact, urge China to open unconditional talks with the Dalai Lama on Tibet. At the same time there would be an opening up to ...

By this year, local governments had taken on as much as $11 trillion in off-the-books debt to build transit ... then-Premier Zhu Rongji forced weak state-owned enterprises to close or merge ...