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 fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

Interested in dipping your toe into the genre? The author Leigh Bardugo recommends books that can get you started.

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Previous winners of the fiction prize, founded in 1996, include Zadie Smith, Tayari Jones and Barbara Kingsolver. Last year, award organizers launched a companion Women’s Prize for Nonfiction to ...

You don’t need to make it make sense for anyone else. You just have to choose it. And that choice? It’s anything but fiction.

A film adaptation of “Split Fiction,” the hot new co-op game from “It Takes Two” developer Hazelight Studios, is in the works, Variety has learned. Sources at the Game Developers ...

A super-secret and very hard level hidden in Split Fiction, so difficult that only a few of the game’s devs could overcome it, has been completed by a pair of speedrunners. Their reward?

Every time I pick up a novel, I am struck by the remarkable cognitive and emotional processes that unfold in my mind. “Just one more chapter,” I tell myself—only to find that I’ve been ...

Split Fiction has had an incredibly successful launch, peaking at more than 250,000 players on Steam and selling 2 million copies within a week. But if you don’t want to buy a copy, or just want ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “96 Vandam,” by Gerald Stern, and his own poem “Man on a Fire Escape.” The poets talk about “A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker.” The ...

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