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Dick Harpootlian, a SC attorney known for high-profile criminal cases involving notorious murderers has written a book on ...

The left tends to emphasize individual choice on social issues, as with the pro-choice movement, while the right tends to ...

Mainstream Christianity’s attitudes about sex have always been complicated—and its institutions might even be able to evolve.

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In her new hybrid memoir, Katie Goh unravels the multitudes citrus fruit contains, in lockstep with mythologies of ...

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

A motorbike. In a black-and-white Nick Ut photograph on my living room wall—not the one of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, burned by napalm, running and screaming—a man drives a motorbike, fleeing a ...

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