To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

The Tariff Act of 1890 raised taxes to 49.5% on 1,500-plus items. Championing the move was the “Napoleon of Protectionism,” ...

If you’re wondering why your superannuation is shrinking or the Reserve Bank may cut interest rates next month, blame Trump.

The studio hopes that "Great American Stories" will become an anthology franchise, ripped from the pages of literary classics ...

It’s a good month for criticism in the literary world, with new books in April exploring everything ... Emily Henry is back with Great Big Beautiful Life, which centers on two writers trying ...

People with a healthy limit on their screen time probably haven’t noticed—but there’s been a meme shortage this March. On TikTok, some have declared a full-blown “Meme Drought,” dubbing ...

Seasoned hiker Valerie Gillis vanishes shortly before reaching the end of the Appalachian trail. A Maine game warden works to find Valerie, as does a septuagenarian armchair detective in a ...

Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel in nearly 15 years. It follows a "Prairie Witch" in Dust Bowl-era Nebraska.

Her upcoming book, High Functioning: Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy, promotes a basic but powerful technique — keeping score. “I don’t encourage you to keep score in ...

But in most cases, a recession doesn't lead to an economic depression. Since the Great Depression, the US has experienced 14 recessions, the last of which occurred in 2020 due to the COVID-19 ...

One of the most severe depressions in history has been the Great Depression of the 1930s, which started in 1929, lasted till 1939, and was triggered by a stock market crash.