‘The Great Gatsby’ Black reimagining spotlights West Adams Heights
On the Shelf The Great Mann By Kyra Davis LurieCrown: 320 pages, $28If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a…
Edmund White, a groundbreaking gay author, dies at 85
NEW YORK — Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, plays and such novels as “A Boy’s…
‘It’s Not the End of the World’ review: Future L.A. is a campy mess
Book Review It's Not the End of the World By Jonathan Parks-RamageBloomsbury: 384 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may…
‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ cast and what else to know
Keiran Culkin is joining “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” as eccentric host Caesar Flickerman. An adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel of the same…
‘Forever’ on Netflix shows why Judy Blume is hot in Hollywood
When Mara Brock Akil was a little girl, she voraciously read Judy Blume. Looking back, she sees her obsession as the start of her becoming…
‘Life of Pi’ at the Ahmanson review: Enchanting and profound
The natural world is aswirl in “Life of Pi,” a marvelously inventive stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2002 Booker Prize-winning novel. This pageant of puppetry…
‘Forever’ review: An ode to first love based on Judy Blume’s novel
“Forever…,” the 1975 Judy Blume YA novel about teenagers losing their virginity, has inspired a Netflix series with changes you’re free to regard as substantial…
‘The Director’ review: Novel fills in gaps of G.W. Pabst’s life
Book Review The Director: A Novel By Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross BenjaminSummit Books: 352 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The…
‘Miss Austen’ TV series review: A PBS Masterpiece ode to Jane
If I write, It is a truth universally acknowledged that to begin an essay with the words “It is a truth universally acknowledged” marks the…
‘Bonjour Tristesse’ review: Chloë Sevigny complicates remake
The combination of adolescence’s slippery hedonism and the French Riviera’s languid air spurred the explosive popularity of Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel “Bonjour Tristesse,” written when…
‘The Manor of Dreams’ Review: Matriarchs battle over a haunted estate
Book Review The Manor of Dreams By Christina LiAvid Reader Press: 352 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn…
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and Nobel laureate, dies at 89
LIMA, Peru — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, his son said Sunday. He…
Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell-Horner on new YA novel in trilogy
On the Shelf Rosie Frost: Ice on Fire By Geri Halliwell-HornerPhilomel Books: 464 pages, $19If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may…
‘Bad Nature’ spins a comic tale full of grievance and wit: review
Book Review Bad Nature By Ariel CourageHenry Holt and Co.: 304 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a…
‘Expert of Subtle Revisions’ review: History, language aren’t neutral
Book Review The Expert of Subtle Revisions By Kirsten Menger-AndersonCrown: 256 pages, $28If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a…
Joseph Wambaugh, cop-turned-best-selling-author, dies at 88
Before Joseph Wambaugh came along, the unofficial bard of the Los Angeles Police Department was Jack Webb, whose unsmiling Sgt. Joe Friday peppered every episode…
HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’: John Lithgow to star as Dumbledore
It seems John Lithgow spilled the (Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor) beans about his involvement in HBO’s upcoming “Harry Potter” series. The Oscar-nominated “Terms of Endearment”…
10 promising books to add to your reading list in February
February arrives after a tough January for Los Angeles and its environs; if you haven’t been reading much, it’s understandable. Perhaps a few of the…
David Lodge dead: British author and Booker nominee was 89
LONDON — David Lodge, a witty and prolific British novelist and critic who gently satirized academia, religion and even his own loss of hearing in such…
10 promising books to add to your reading list in January
Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider for your January reading list.Each of us approaches a new year…