Laila Lalami
Lalami’s 2014 novel “The Moor’s Account” won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was on the Man Booker Prize longlist. She is a columnist for “The Nation” and has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and a Lannan Foundation Residency fellowship. Born in Morocco, Lalami has a PhD in linguistics from USC and teaches at UC Riverside.
Latest From This Author
The Los Angeles Times Book Club is reading “The Other Americans” by Laila Lalami.
July 3, 2019
Earlier this month, the New York Review of Books, arguably the foremost magazine of ideas in the United States, published a cover story online about Jian Ghomeshi, the Canadian broadcaster who was credibly accused of choking and punching non-consenting women during sexual encounters.
Sept. 19, 2018
Reader, I have two selves.
March 30, 2017
To ask about The Great American Novel is to invite a debate about every portion of the phrase.
June 30, 2016
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.
June 24, 2016
Can borders stop immigrants?
Sept. 11, 2014
The author looks at the resurgence in wearing the veil in the Muslim world and the U.S.
July 31, 2011
Book review: ‘A Quiet Revolution’ by Leila Ahmed
July 31, 2011
Author’s trip through the Atlas Mountains reminds her how women who don’t fit typical gender roles are undermined by men -- and by other women
July 19, 2009
“Money Walks,” a serial novel by 16 Los Angeles writers who will be appearing at this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, runs Monday through Saturday until April 24.
April 11, 2009