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'On Animals' collects decades of the Los Angeles journalist's pieces on the human-animal bond, melding cool reporting with warmth that breaks through.

The On Animals author says goodbye for now to her upstate menagerie.

With restrictions lifting everywhere, venturing out doesn't mean abandoning your books. Ten summer reads to help you mark the return of beach season

With restrictions lifting everywhere, venturing out doesn't mean abandoning your books. Ten summer reads to help you mark the return of beach season

The Ultimate Summer Escape: Historical Fiction New novels — by turns salty, sweeping and sweet — will transport you to 1930s Italy, 19th-century England and San Francisco a hundred years ago. Credit...Ryan Gillett May 27, 2021, 9:55 a.m. ET If you think of historical fiction as a way of translating the past, does your perspective change when that fiction has been translated from another language? As some of the season’s best new historical novels suggest, this added dimension can make a b...

Lisa Taddeo, whose book "Three Women" broke the mold of immersive journalism, talks about her first novel, "Animal," and the struggle to write and live.

Torri Newman was working a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York when she had a thought. Now its a novel and will soon be a movie.

Fatal Attraction: Inside the intoxicating depravity of Lisa Taddeos Animal © Provided by Entertainment Weekly Illustration by Beth Hoeckel for EW Its impossible to talk about Animal without talking about 2019s Three Women. That book, which follows the sexual and emotional lives of women, became the kind of cultural phenomenon that will forever follow Lisa Taddeo. Animal flows out of its predecessor, but where Women deals with the perils of heteronormative gender politics, Animal deals i...

The founder of the Brown Girl Therapy Instagram account, Sahaj Kaur Kohli, But What Will People Say?, to Penguin Life’s Emily Wunderlich at auction. Brown Girl Therapy bills itself as “the first/largest mental health community for children of immigrants,” and the book, subtitled On Navigating Mental Health as a Child of Immigrants, will expand upon the account. The publisher said it will combine “personal narrative, anecdotal analysis, comprehensive research, and advice on what it me...

Has Digital Technology Been Good For Teenagers? It Depends. For the current generation of teenagers, digital tech is as much a part of their lives as pimples and puberty, and it comes with pros and cons. By 96five Contributors Tuesday 20 Apr 2021 By: Akos Balogh Teenagers are massive users of digital technology. The current generation of teenagers – known as ‘iGen’ – have grown up in the age of the iPhone and social media. Most of them can’t remember a time without a smartphone in th...