The finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards were announced on Tuesday morning, March...
Literature & Justice
Presenting WitnessLA’s Uncommonly Excellent Justice & Injustice Book Reading List!
Looking for an outstanding reading list for your stay-at-home days? Not a problem. On Friday...
The Nobel Prize Committee for Literature Gets It Crazily, Amazingly, Spectacularly Right.
There has been much dark news of late; we can all agree on that sad fact. But in the wee hours of...
Watts Riots 50th Anniversary News Roundup….Are Crime Rates Really Rising?….and Coroner’s Inquests
JOURNALISTS, AUTHORS, ACTIVISTS, AND RESIDENTS REMEMBER THE WATTS RIOTS As America marks the 50th...
What Does CA’s Use of Juvie Isolation Look Like?…..Stop Locking Up Truant Kids in CA! ….The Lousy State of Education in Juvie Lock-Ups, CA’ s included….North Carolina Sheriff Takes On Wrongful Convictions….Farewell to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING LOOKS HARD AT CA’S JUVIE SOLITARY In addition to the shock...
Peter Matthiessen: May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014…Into the Mystery
Impassioned non-fiction-writer, novelist, naturalist Peter Matthiessen died on Saturday at 86 of...