To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Sonia Faleiro’s new book How I Write attempts to extract this very clarity from this haze of the creative process. The book ...

Ocean Vuong is one of the leading literary voices of the 21st century. With a limited but influential body of work, Vuong's ...

Allison Graves, Zilla Jones, Dilan Qadir, Liz Stewart and Isabella Wang have been named the 2025 Writers' Trust of Canada's ...

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

Claire Luchette, an assistant professor of English, received the Whiting Award for their novel, “Agatha of Little Neon.” The ...

Henry’s heroines are intelligent, driven women — a hard-charging literary agent, a devoted librarian, a med student in the ...

In a new book, the Broadway photographer Jenny Anderson captures the craft and camaraderie of making theater.

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.

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Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh ...