The author and Magnolia founder was inspired by the curiosity and wonder she sees in her youngest child, Crew, to pen her ...

Two Nairobi women face colonial past in 'How to Build a Library,' working to revive three Kenyan libraries in disrepair. Read ...

As one of the largest and most technologically advanced digital planetarium domes in the world, the Morrison Planetarium at ...

The new book was approved by a committee of thirteen clerics who had ... The gateway to Protestant reform had yawned open when Henry VIII died in 1547, to be replaced by the nine-year-old Edward VI, ...

Lebanon's Hady Habib made history Sunday at the Australian Open by becoming the first player from his country to win a Grand Slam match. World number 219 Habib is the only Lebanese ever ...

Dinosaurs, butterflies and spiders! The Natural History Museum has so many cool things to see and interact with that families will want to plan multiple visits. Throughout the year, the Natural ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Hady Habib isn't likely to find anything too daunting at the Australian Open now that he's ... Late last year, he made history at Temuco, Chile by becoming the ...

In her new book, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life, she takes up where Socrates left off. Describing her own high-school encounter with him, Callard writes: “I didn’t just want ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. Another year of reading has come and gone, leaving mental trails of ...

Suddenly there was a wave of noise. Thousands of fans cheered as the theme to the duo’s podcast, The Rest is History, started playing. Sandbrook shook his head, thinking: “What on Earth?… ...

The Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip had been declared a military zone, which allowed the Israeli army to deny access to Israeli citizens other than residents. They were thus able to exclude ...

A popular one is finishing an arbitrary number of books; another approach is to establish specific parameters—reading only titles by women for a year, meeting a quota for books in translation ...