Book-lovin’ columnist David Allen offers highlights from what he read in 2024, from “Middlemarch” to histories of Riverside and San Bernardino.

Set in 1857 amid the brutal Utah War, the Netflix series spares none of the grime and violence in its attempt to offer a fair ...

Alan Spears, NPCA’s senior director of cultural resources, offers a winter reading list on people and places that shaped our ...

Author Roccie Hill will present her award-winning book, "The Blood of My Mother," at the Desert Hot Springs Library at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9.

County Library Foundation’s Reading Garden Series for Young Audiences and The Novel Neighbor will host a 2025 Black History Celebration event with award-winning middle grade children’s book author Dr.

From page-turners by the Pope and Bill Gates to critics’ favourites Catherine Lacey and David Szalay, prepare for a literary ...

The Woods Hole Public Library Armchair Traveler Book Group will head to Panama in January with a discussion of “The Great Divide” by Cristina Henríquez. The discussion will take place ...

Discover 10 impactful works of fiction from 2024, exploring themes of identity, equality, history, and societal complexities ...

Novelist Bapsi Sidhwa was known for her focus on the cultural, historical, and social complexities of the Indian subcontinent ...

In Stranger Than Fiction, the American editor Edwin Frank seeks to tell the story of the modern novel through an eccentric, provoking list of 32 books. By John Mullan The photo of the author on the ...

We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.