These ten thoughtful books provide guidance on slowing down, letting go of hustle culture, and reconnecting with rest and ...

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

American Psycho has been a part of the cultural conversation for nearly 35 years, beginning in 1991, with the release of Bret ...

The Passover story has come to function as a powerful narrative of persecution and liberation for Jewish people.

The author takes us on a journey of "Fresh Sets," the lessons she learned from interviewing nail artists, and her love for coffee table books.

Between 1991 to 1997, the traveling circus of a festival excited, entertained and empowered disaffected American youth, ...

Brown acknowledges fellow Egyptologist Jacobus van Dijk’s theory that the ritual carried out could have been the “spell of the four torches” from the infamous Book of the Dead. During this ...

The historical case depicted in The Ritual revolves around Emma Schmidt, a woman whose exorcism became one of American history’s most thoroughly documented cases of supposed demonic influence.

The word “equinox” is derived from the Latin words for “equal” and “night ,” because the hours of night and day are nearly ...

life itself has become a humiliation ritual. As Naomi Klein writes in her book Doppelganger, “Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right—the feeling of living in ...

Known as the Awakening of Osiris, the ancient ritual sought to facilitate the deceased ... may indicate a connection to an ancient Egyptian text called the "Books of the Underworld and Sky ...

Hindu devotees carry a basket with idols of deities of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god, and goddess of wealth Lakshmi to perform rituals on the occasion of Bengali New Year’s day in which traders in ...