Why Have Humans Always Loved... Beans?

Why Have Humans Always Loved... Beans?

Joe Yonan on the Seductive, Universal Appeal of a Good Bean

By Joe Yonan | February 20, 2020

When Music is Your First Language

When Music is Your First Language

Philip Kennicott on Finding Bach Amidst the Family Chaos

By Philip Kennicott | February 20, 2020

Three Trees That Tell the Story of<br> Ancient Cultures

Three Trees That Tell the Story of
Ancient Cultures

Legends of the Kapok, Totara, and Judas Tree

By Kevin Hobbs and David West | February 20, 2020

The man responsible for cut/copy/paste (and making countless writers' lives easier) has died.

The man responsible for cut/copy/paste (and making countless writers' lives easier) has died.

By Jessie Gaynor | February 19, 2020

The <em>L.A. Times</em> announces its 2019 Book Prize finalists and a new award for science fiction.

The L.A. Times announces its 2019 Book Prize finalists and a new award for science fiction.

By Katie Yee | February 19, 2020

LeBron James, my hero, has written a children's book.

LeBron James, my hero, has written a children's book.

By Dan Sheehan | February 19, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Compassion fatigue is taking its toll on librarians.

By Julia Hass | February 19, 2020

Announcing the finalists for the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

By Katie Yee | February 19, 2020

Announcing the fourth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.

By Emily Temple | February 19, 2020

Life Under Quarantine at the Heart of the Coronavirus Outbreak

Life Under Quarantine at the Heart of the Coronavirus Outbreak

Writer Deng Anqing's Daily Chronicles From a Rural Chinese Village

By Deng Anqing trans. by Na Zhong | February 19, 2020

America's Housing Crisis: A Reading List

America's Housing Crisis: A Reading List

Conor Dougherty on the Books That Shaped His Understanding of the Problem

By Conor Dougherty | February 19, 2020

Football is Everything (Which is to<br> Say Soccer)

Football is Everything (Which is to
Say Soccer)

David Goldblatt on the Biggest Cultural Phenomenon the World Has Ever Known

By David Goldblatt | February 19, 2020

How the Well-Educated and Downwardly Mobile Found Socialism

How the Well-Educated and Downwardly Mobile Found Socialism

At Least, According to Charlotte Alter, a Gentle Version of It

By Charlotte Alter | February 19, 2020

On Sorrow, Roadside Shrines, and the Brushed Steel Stereo From My 1987 Nissan Maxima

On Sorrow, Roadside Shrines, and the Brushed Steel Stereo From My 1987 Nissan Maxima

Ander Monson Considers the Elegies All Around Us

By Ander Monson | February 19, 2020

Censorship and Abuse in the Word of Faith Fellowship

Censorship and Abuse in the Word of Faith Fellowship

On the Darkness Within Jane Whaley's Church

By Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr | February 19, 2020

The Devastating Fallout of Addiction and Corporate Burnout

The Devastating Fallout of Addiction and Corporate Burnout

Eilene Zimmerman on Burying Her Husband

By Eilene Zimmerman | February 19, 2020

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