Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Honestly, for bibliophiles, is there a better weekend in spring than late April at the L.A. Times Festival of Books? The temps will be in the 70s, ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. For the next few editions of the newsletter, you’ll be hearing directly from folks in the book world. Next up … I’m moderating ...

For the first book in our Louisiana inspired four-part book club series, we have selected "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Louisiana Inspired editor Jan Risher will facilitate a ...

For this edition of the book club, we got into “You Dreamed of Empires” by Mexican author Álvaro Enrigue, translated into English by Natasha Wimmer. It’s the story of the colonial conquest of Mexico ...

New Yorker cartoon satirist Tom Toro once wrote in 2017, “Levity alone cannot change the world, but it can buoy up the movements that will.” And keep us sane. Since then, the world seems to have ...

Dua's book club and Kaia's Library Science. Credit: Instagram: @service95, @kaiagerber. Last week, I read and finished a book that I have always known about but never quite came around to picking up: ...

COVID-19 did not simply interrupt schooling; it altered how we read. Remote instruction rewarded efficiency over depth. Faced with shortened periods, screen fatigue and constant digital distractions, ...

For the first book in our Louisiana inspired four-part book club series, we have selected "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Louisiana Inspired editor Jan Risher will facilitate a ...