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.

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

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, ...

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 ...

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

The liturgy of Palm Sunday is dissonant, almost schizophrenic. It begins with jubilant rejoicing only to end in bitter ...

The creator of “Kim’s Convenience” wrestled with the call to pastoral ministry. But his faith and art have led him there ...

Christianity moves toward nihilism, Ellul argued, when we see “the transforming of a living movement of relationship into an achieved and definite situation.” Ellul said that this kind of “freezing” ...

After eight weeks of anticipation on who dies in The White Lotus season three, viewers finally got our answer. It was not ...

Maria Shriver has shared just how painful the implosion of her 25-year marriage to Arnold Schwarzenegger really was.

The esteemed critic Harold Bloom, a native speaker of Yiddish, called Chaim Grade one of the four greatest writers in the ...