Author name: Joyce Bright

Every generation has its parent whisperer. My mother and father had Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician who promoted the revolutionary idea that children should be cherished and held, not whipped or spanked. His landmark 1946 book, “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care,” became one of the best-selling books of the 20th century. When […]

February arrives after a tough January for Los Angeles and its environs; if you haven’t been reading much, it’s understandable. Perhaps a few of the titles on this month’s list will encourage you to take a break if you can and explore different places. Some of them, like turn-of-the-20th-century Manhattan, are bustling. Others, like contemporary

Hardcover fiction 1. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books: $33) A deluxe limited edition featuring exclusive design work. 2. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books: $30) The third installment of the bestselling dragon rider series. 3. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $29) Two grieving brothers come

Kenneth Turan’s splendid book about Hollywood titans Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg is the first in 50 years to tell their story in a single volume. Part of Yale University Press’ “Jewish Lives” series, “Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation” centers on the years in the 1920s and ’30s when the

Dark Horse Comics has taken a stance against author Neil Gaiman, who faces multiple allegations of sexual assault. The publishing company over the weekend announced that it would no longer publish the “American Gods” and “Good Omens” author’s work. As part of taking “seriously the allegations against” Gaiman, Dark Horse Comics said on X (formerly

When Lola Kirke was a young teen, her “manny” was a fallen rock musician with boundary issues while a movie star friend of the family she calls Gideon (not his real name) seemed a little too friendly when she got high, as the actor-musician recalls in her collection of essays, “Wild West Village.” Then there

When New York street artist Andaluz finished his Costa Mesa mural honoring Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others who lost their lives in a Jan. 26, 2020, helicopter crash, he dedicated it to a state that was still mourning the loss of one of its icons. “I truly hope this piece brings some