More than a century after Upton Sinclair portrayed life in Chicago’s stockyards, recent child labour investigations in meatpacking underscore the continued relevance of The Jungle.

Radical Innocent, Anthony Arthur's excellent new biography of Upton Sinclair, offers a marvelous anecdote about the day in 1904 when Sinclair first appeared at the Chicago stockyards, ready to ...

Mention Upton Sinclair, and his 1906 exposé of Chicago's meatpacking industry, "The Jungle," instantly comes to mind. Local historian and Napa Valley College Professor Lauren Coodley wants to change ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. On May 15, 1923—94 years ago ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

I appreciated Kevin Mattson’s essay about Upton Sinclair’s apparent knowledge that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were guilty, especially because it drew attention to Boston, Sinclair’s largely ...

Every so often a book comes along that changes the world in some way. Here is one such book. What it is: “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. It was published in serial form in 1905 and as a book in 1906.

The bludgeoning conclusion of Paul Thomas Anderson's much-lauded, Oscar-nominated film "There Will Be Blood," which will be released next week on DVD, features a preacher forced to renounce his faith ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A historic Monrovia house once owned by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Upton Sinclair is on the market. Listed at just under $2 million, this ...

Disney, having engulfed the movie division of Fox, is renaming its acquisition: 20th Century Fox will now be called 20th Century Studios. It’s hard to blame Disney’s executives for disconnecting the ...

Test your knowledge of novels written during (or about) this memorable era of American history. By J. D. Biersdorfer In the Netflix drama, Hollywood gets involved in the race for governor. But while ...