The exhibit also highlighted the remarkable role women have played in America’s history. It included a 1931 edition of the book, “Women Builders,” by Sadie Iola Daniel, that highlights the lives of ...

Ryan Coogler was inspired by a late uncle, who died while he was filming his 'Rocky' reboot. The new movie, his first horror ...

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

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

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

The year the L.A. Times Festival of Books debuted was also a landmark year in American letters, shaping literary culture in ways that remain with us nearly three decades on.

"Prose to the People," edited by Katie Mitchell, chronicles the legacy of past and present Black bookstore's throughout the ...

There is no doubt that telling and learning the truth is for some, including Kate Grenville, a moral imperative. But ...

Lately I have been thinking about the role that film literacy should play in the lives of educated, curious people — and, on that basis, which old movies I want my children to have caught at least ...

Removing books about the Holocaust and the Black experience in the United States strikes at the heart of the academy’s ...

Jordan Spieth's 3-year-old son, Sammy, was among the kids who stole the show at the Masters Par 3 Contest on Wednesday.

Dissatisfied with the rules of the Benedictine abbey they called home, they created the Cistercian rule and order in 1098 and grew to be known as the “White Monks.” The monks curated a vast manuscript ...