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13 Best Beauty Box Subscriptions, Tested and Reviewed (2025)
A beauty subscription box feels like a monthly present. These are our favorites.Wired - 14h -
The 30 best fiction books of the last 30 years
To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.Los Angeles Times - 2d -
WATCH: How a 'book brigade' of 300 residents moved 9,100 books to a new storefront
Michelle Tuplin, owner of Serendipity Books, explains the moment hundreds of residents within a Michigan community formed a human chain to help her store move each of its 9,100 books -- one by one.ABC News - 10h -
A New Book About Baking Bread Is Only Sort of About Bread
“Existential Bread,” a book by the poet and amateur baker Jim Franks, is only sort of about bread.The New York Times - 6d -
Celebrating the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books: Full coverage
Ahead of the festival's 30th edition, we look back on the books, authors, genres and organizations that have defined the last 30 years in literature.Los Angeles Times - 2d -
From 'Infinite Jest' to Oprah's Book Club, 1996 changed the (literary) world
The year the L.A. Times Festival of Books debuted was also a landmark year in American letters, shaping literary culture in ways that remain with us nearly three decades on.Los Angeles Times - 2d -
'Government Cheese' stays outside the box with a surreal Black family in the Valley
'Government Cheese' is a surrealist comedy on Apple TV+ about a Black family living in the San Fernando Valley that's based on co-creator Paul Hunter's own family.Los Angeles Times - 1d -
Smugglers' paradise: How US guns flow to gang-ravaged Haiti
The journey of two boxes of weapons reveals a chain of lax laws, absent checks and suspected corruption.BBC News - 2h -
The week's bestselling books, April 20
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 20, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.Los Angeles Times - 14h -
Book excerpt: "I Am Maria" by Maria Shriver
In her new memoir, the daughter of Kennedys, broadcast journalist and former first lady of California uses poetry to explore a woman in search of herself.CBS News - Mar. 30 -
Book excerpt: "Change the Recipe" by José Andrés
In his new memoir, the chef and founder of the humanitarian aid organization World Central Kitchen offers life lessons and teachable moments about responsibility and commitment to a shared humanity.CBS News - Apr. 6 -
‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one
A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefront. Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped ...The Guardian - 3h -
Trade war fallout: Cancellations of Chinese freight ships begin as bookings plummet
Canceled freight vessel sailings from China are up and will ripple through the supply chain as the trade war impact on the global economy intensifies.CNBC - 8h -
Trump-style book censorship is spreading – just ask British librarians | Alison Hicks
UK schools are coming under pressure to remove titles from their shelves. It’s not coming from the place you might think. For all its talk of free speech, the Trump administration seems remarkably ...The Guardian - 12h -
Mass Effect Fans Can Snag 8 Graphic Novels And 3 Art Books For Only $9
The mark of a great sci-fi universe is that it's instantly recognizable, and Mass Effect more than meets that standard with its stunning art direction throughout its original trilogy. If you're ...GameSpot - 8h -
Who will win Champions League? BBC Sport's predictions
BBC Sport predict who will win the 2024-25 Champions League as Arsenal, Barcelona, Paris St-Germain and Inter Milan book their semi-final spots.BBC News - 4h -
Here Comes the Sun: Arline Geronimus and more
Researcher and author Arline Geronimus sits down with Nancy Giles to discuss her book “Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society.” Then, Luke Burbank visits a ...CBS News - Mar. 30 -
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" turns 100
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby" at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would emerge as one of the very top contenders for "the great ...CBS News - 5d -
‘One minute it’s “would you like to listen to Galaxie 500?”, the next humanity’s enslaved’: can anyone escape Spotify?
As a new book skewers Spotify’s effect on music, two Guardian music writers spent a week assessing the limits of living with and without it. Laura Snapes, deputy music editor I was set the task ...The Guardian - 13h