Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic, fervent bookworm and hoops head Chris Vognar. This week we speak with poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib ...

Incredible slam dunks are living proof that humankind need not be held down by mere gravity. They literally and figuratively elevate basketball and are at the heart of “Magic in the Air: The Myth, the ...

Dec. 23—No bullies on Ava Morton's watch. Ava, an eighth-grader at Mountaineer Middle School, is known for the way she positively intervenes to quell bullying in her school perched high atop Price ...

Author Doug Villhard will be at Memorial Stadium for the Illinois-Michigan game on Oct. 19. Mike Carpenter of Urbana finished his book on Illinois men’s basketball in July. Illinois basketball book ...

Chris Navalta and Marco McCleod were teammates on the Hogan High School football team 30 years ago. They are back together again, and there isn’t a football in sight. McCleod is the co-owner of the ...