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Jaron Lanier takes a hard look at the wired world

Jaron Lanier has a research job with Microsoft. He won't go into specfics, but it has something to do with imagining the future and asking...

John le Carre's 'A Delicate Truth' isn't gentle with war on terror

'Stuck in the Middle' offers a singular perspective on parenting

Mo Hayder's 'Poppet' takes nuanced, compelling look at evil

F. Scott Fitzgerald has long been a Hollywood inspiration

Walter Mosley revisits Easy Rawlins' neighborhood

Ken Baumann's secret life in books

Introducing the Los Angeles Times map of Literary Los Angeles

Sammy Harkham, a city's comics crusader

Reviews

Revisiting Federico Garcia Lorca in a novel -- and in the writer's own voice	A Hollywood of the mind
Michelle Tea turns a radical eye on YA in 'Mermaid in Chelsea Creek'	Judy Juanita and her 'Virgin Soul'
'The Mothers' follows one couple's attempt to adopt	'The Walking' continues the journey of Iranian immigrants
A teen's quest for self-discovery in 'Maya's Notebook'	A book editor unleashes the beast within in Arnon Grunberg's 'Tirza'

'The Roberts Court' captures an important transformation	Janet Malcolm's brilliant methods are on show in 'Forty-One False Starts'
'The Cooked Seed' details Anchee Min's fraught immigrant saga	Flip Wilson, a pioneer in prime time
Was the Revolutionary War a reactionary war? 'Bunker Hill' reconsiders history.	A spin through a world where bicycles rule streets
'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars	The boy behind Kristallnacht

In 'Prodigy,' Marie Lu burnishes her 'Legend' series	'Lemonade in Winter' by Emily Jenkins
Beauty, brains in Jane Yolen's 'Curse of the Thirteenth Fey'	'Son' by Lois Lowry
'Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All The Wrong Questions)' by Lemony Snicket	'Sleep Like a Tiger' by Mary Logue
'Bomb' by Steve Sheinkin	'Oh, No!' by Candace Fleming

Hardcover fiction bestsellers
1. "The Storm" by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
2. "11th Hour" by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
3. "Stolen Prey" by John Sandford
Hardcover nonfiction bestsellers
1. "It Worked for Me" by Colin Powell
2. "The Amateur" by Edward Klein
3. "The Skinny Rules" by Bob Harper with Greg Critser