Like many faculty members, Afshin M. Gharib and William L. Phillips have strong preferences for giving certain types of examinations. Both men, associate professors of psychology at Dominican ...

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. This weekend’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books isn’t just the nation’s largest literary festival. It’s a unique opportunity to ...

(The full, nine-inning Playbook was originally published during the spring of 2020. It has been updated for 2025 where applicable.) Let's begin with advice that would've made my ninth-grade English ...

Until Amazon’s Kindle makes physically purchasing individual books online or at the bookstore a thing of the distant past, voracious readers who would rather buy than borrow from the library will ...