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

The Making of the President 1960 laid the foundation for election books; it became a bestseller, won Theodore White a ...

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

Actress Ione Skye was a teenager when her appearances in River's Edge and Say Anything... made her a star. In her ...

“Equal rights & Justice to all white men in the United States forever,” urges John McMahon of Hambrook, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 5, 1864. “White men is in class number one & black men in class number two ...

In Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez’s dizzying docu-fiction, an Edenic landscape becomes a backdrop for duplicity and ...

This list includes the best original page-turners with superb quality prose and the most captivating stories that stayed with us after we’d reached the end. From books for history-lovers to ...

Austin Kelley’s new novel is a philosophical detective story in which the objective, verifiable world is a hypothesis, not a given.

It was the closest vote on any declaration of war in American history. Opposition had been ... bursting in air”—British shells detonating short of their target. It seemed unlikely, Key would ...

In this postmodern narrative about American selfhood, the “enemy” in the war—Britain—almost disappeared entirely. Not surprisingly, the Canadian history of the war began with a completely ...

As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s ...

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