Like many faculty members, Afshin M. Gharib and William L. Phillips have strong preferences for giving certain types of examinations. Both men, associate professors of psychology at Dominican ...

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. This weekend’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books isn’t just the nation’s largest literary festival. It’s a unique opportunity to ...

How libraries are adapting their services to fill the void left by the decline of traditional bookstores. “Writers are, in the aggregate, charming, manipulative, secretive, sometimes violent. Mostly ...

This week marks the official publication of the longest, most comprehensive, and highest-priced ($32.95!) work of Crisis Lit yet, New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin’s epic Too Big to Fail, ...