Laila Lalami has much more to offer her fans than her award-winning writing. Those attending this year’s Brady Author Symposium Q&A Session, heard valuable insight into her reading and writing habits ...

Now a new entry on the "NewsHour" Bookshelf. Jeffrey Brown caught up with the National Book Award fiction finalist Laila Lalami at the Miami Book Festival. Her latest work of fiction, "The Other ...

Laila Lalami is the author of six books, including, most recently, the novel The Dream Hotel. In Searches, Vauhini Vara probes the ways that we rely on the Internet and how we periodically attempt to ...

Laila Lalami’s latest novel, “The Other Americans,” is on one level a mystery about the death of a Moroccan American restaurant owner, set in a small town in the Mojave. But Lalami, a professor of ...

What does it mean to be an American? Does citizenship truly open all the doors of acceptance and belonging that it purports to? Is identity malleable? How does one handle the shifting sense of self ...

The Los Angeles Times Book Club has selected “The Other Americans” as its next book and hosts a July 30 conversation with author Laila Lalami at the Skirball Cultural Center. The novel is a mystery ...

Laila Lalami's new novel The Other Americans is told from the perspective of nine different narrators who have one thing in common: They've all "had the experience of dislocation," Lalami says. The ...

Who gets to be an American? It’s a question that’s been asked and answered countless times before, but from the earliest days of this country, there have always been people who consider themselves ...

To ask about The Great American Novel is to invite a debate about every portion of the phrase. Why use the definite article, which suggests that only one book can lay claim to the title? What ...

Born in Morocco, educated in London and Los Angeles, writer Laila Lalami found herself surprisingly drawn to the wild and unfamiliar landscape of the Mojave Desert. Lalami chose the desert towns near ...

Growing up in Rabat, Morocco, author Laila Lalami loved “Adventures of Tintin” comic books and identified with Tintin, a young reporter who solves crimes. “It’s only as an adult that I realized I wasn ...

At the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books some years ago, I heard a writer claim that he gets up at 6 a.m. every day, does 50 push-ups, drinks a pot of coffee, and then sits down to write. He seemed ...