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The Los Angeles Times Book Club is reading “The Other Americans” by Laila Lalami.
Earlier this month, the New York Review of Books, arguably the foremost magazine of ideas in the United States, published a cover story online about Jian Ghomeshi, the Canadian broadcaster who was credibly accused of choking and punching non-consenting women during sexual encounters.
Reader, I have two selves.
To ask about The Great American Novel is to invite a debate about every portion of the phrase.
At the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books some years ago, I heard a writer claim that he gets up at 6 a.m. every day, does 50 push-ups, drinks a pot of coffee, and then sits down to write.
Can borders stop immigrants?
The author looks at the resurgence in wearing the veil in the Muslim world and the U.S.
Book review: ‘A Quiet Revolution’ by Leila Ahmed
Author’s trip through the Atlas Mountains reminds her how women who don’t fit typical gender roles are undermined by men -- and by other women
“Money Walks,” a serial novel by 16 Los Angeles writers who will be appearing at this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, runs Monday through Saturday until April 24.
