Halloween is almost here, and the time is right for Leo Braudy’s latest work of cultural history and criticism, irresistibly titled “Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds” (Yale University Press).
One of the great mysteries of history is how a country as civilized as Germany was persuaded to embrace a man as coarse and cruel as Adolf Hitler. The answer, according to Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, is marketing.
This fall brings an especially lively assortment of books and authors to Southern California bookstores, ranging from masters of literary fiction to members of the glitterati, and at least one music superstar whose book-signing promises to draw a record-breaking crowd.
Like an Upton Sinclair of women’s fiction, writer Lauren Weisberger has a knack for showing the seedy underbelly of industries that seem glamorous to outsiders who aren’t aware of the stressful sacrifices that stardom requires.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Susan Faludi is best known for her landmark books “Backlash” and “Stiffed,” both of which are penetrating investigations of the role of gender in American life.
The fall holidays are here and so is the new crop of holiday-themed children’s books.
Ron J. Hutter has written a provocative, entertaining, and thoughtful novel that explores the problem of antisemitism in a very original way.
Donald Trump was in Phoenix for a speech on immigration, and Shmuly Yanklowitz wasn’t happy about it.
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