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When he published “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day†in 1957, the young lawyer kicked off a new era in travel, persuading middle-class Americans that London, Paris and Rome weren’t just for aristocrats.
Elle Macpherson shares life lessons in her memoir, ‘Elle.’ She hopes it will help younger women ‘find their own unique strength and beauty.’
Volume 1 of the singer’s long-awaited life story covers roughly the period from her birth to 1980, when Cher, a twice-divorced single mother with two children, found herself at a professional crossroads.
Jim O’Heir wrote ‘Welcome to Pawnee’ as a tribute to ‘Parks and Recreation,’ the show that transformed his career. The old gang helped out
Chloe Bennet knows what it’s like to straddle two worlds, and not just in ‘Interior Chinatown’
Chloe Bennet, who co-stars in Hulu’s ‘Interior Chinatown,’ discusses how her identity was central to her role in Charles Yu’s new series that’s based on his book of the same name.
‘The City and Its Uncertain Walls’ bears Murakami’s hallmarks, including references to jazz and the Beatles. It also joins other new works in contending with catastrophe.
Medicare and Social Security represent successes in facing the realities of aging, but their imperfections also show how much more could be done.
FX’s adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s bestselling book focuses on the Price sisters and raises questions about how a bitterly divided country can move on from the past.
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
“Orbital,†by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.
Lili Anolik turns a cache of letters between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz into a book about the unlikely friendship between two seminal L.A. writers before they went their separate ways.
Actor Keke Palmer, of ‘Akeelah and the Bee’ and ‘Nope’ fame, used to let other people control her story. No longer, as she explains in her new memoir ‘Master of Me.’
Weekly hardcover fiction and nonfiction lists.