A 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California, swaying lights and rattling cups off shelves. But officials reported no ...

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.

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

In a thrilling development, Robert Pattinson has joined the cast of Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film, The Odyssey, ...

You have to draw close to hear the words, for a crucified man struggles to speak, his lungs crushed under the pressure of his ...

John and Sally Simkiss opened the doors of their attractive Victorian home in the Garden District for members and guests of ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind usFootprints on the sands of time” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Related Ayo Adebanjo: Exit of Mr Federalism ...

Shakespeare’s works are, and have always been, profoundly theological — not because they provide answers but because they ...

One of the most well-known and beloved Jewish holidays, Passover (in Hebrew, Pesach), is coming up soon on the 15th day of ...

Love is God’s only commandment. Love is God’s only dream for us. Love is God’s only self-description. In spite of the lengthy ...

The maternal embrace of young men and their battles figures in two very different plays, one a solo work and the other a ...