The year the L.A. Times Festival of Books debuted was also a landmark year in American letters, shaping literary culture in ...

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

At the U.S. Naval Academy, it's not what's on the shelves that's drawing attention -- but what's missing. The institution's ...

Aimee Semple McPherson took to the radio to spread the Gospel, but her mysterious disappearance cast a shadow on her ...

Michelle Tuplin's independent bookstore, Serendipity Books, signed a new lease just down the road from its original location ...

Thousands of antiwar activists, hippies, students and draft resisters streamed into the capital on one of those balmy Indian summer days that can make autumn in Washington, D.C. seem magical.

Belowdecks, the ship's charts had been tossed about, and the crewmen's belongings were ... "There was never a question that he would do something irrational," she says. Did Briggs, then, have ...

In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

In ”Last Seen,” historian Judith Giesberg explores how formerly enslaved people tried to reunite with their lost loved ones ...

Readers object to the Naval Academy’s removal of books from its library. Also: Measles vaccines; cutting the E.P.A.; a cost ...

“Like anywhere you go for the summer, there ... it’s none of your business. I’m just saying it wasn’t a holiday, and partly I started saying that because people think we were on a ...