The bill would require school districts to create a committee to identify library books containing sexual activity or “pervasively vulgar” content.

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Internet lists include Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates, a pair surely more famous for their novelistic exploits ... has lately experienced in waves. Her latest book, With My Back to the World, ...

Bridgett Davis… Bridgett M. Davis on the Creative Lessons Learned From an Icon of American Literature In a talk she gave in the 1980s entitled “The Site of Memory”, Toni Morrison said her goals as a ...

The Making of the President 1960 laid the foundation for election books; it became a bestseller, won Theodore White a ...

The year the L.A. Times Festival of Books debuted was also a landmark year in American letters, shaping literary culture in ways that remain with us nearly three decades on.

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

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

Weiner’s newest release, “The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits,” her 22nd novel, is no exception.

Poet Yusef Komunyakaa is to receive an Anisfeld-Wolf Award for lifetime achievement. Komunyakaa, 77, is known for such collections as ...

An Ohio-born author had one of her books on the American Library Association's Top Challenged Books list for 2024.