In Fiona Mozley’s novel “Awake Awake,” a London writer returns to her hometown to unearth hazy memories of past friendships and traumas. By Ruth Franklin Prompted by a fierce attachment to his own pet ...

Each week on The Book Show, host Joe Donahue interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. It is a celebration of both reading and writers. Joe holds interesting conversations ...

Rust enters the top 10 for the first time, Python keeps the lead, C moves back above C++, and SQL edges out R in July’s rankings update. Rust has entered the TIOBE Index top 10 for the first time in ...

The prolific author has scores of beach reads just waiting for you to pick up this summer. Here are all the Elin Hilderbrand books in order. Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature.

A Song of Ice and Fire has been solidified as a defining work of fiction over the past 30 years. George R.R. Martin’s fantasy book saga ascended into the zeitgeist through an ongoing series of ...

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Some divalent cation soaps are known to exhibit a body-centred cubic phase at high temperatures. X-ray crystallography now shows that the polar groups (cations and carbonyl groups) are arranged so as ...

In advance of this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, we’re unveiling our Ultimate Hollywood Bookshelf. Find out which novels, memoirs and more made our list.

A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness. Forget starting over. In Valeria Luiselli’s new novel, it’s the messy middle of life that ...