In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring ...

Following a competitive bidding war, Lionsgate has closed a deal for the novel Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride by Will Leitch with ...

A display of "Physical Optics" by Robert W. Wood inside Room 213 in Clark Library. This book was returned to Clark Library ...

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

Short reviews of recent releases.

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

To truly understand the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and help combat genocide ideology, we compiled a selection of books that document the events, testimonies, and aftermath of one of the darkest ...

Bestselling author Emily Carpenter, whose other suspense novels include "Burying the Honeysuckle Girls" and "The Weight of ...

"Venezuela. Memories of a Lost Future," by Rafael Osío Cabrices, is a look into the history of the beleaguered South American ...

One of the ways Christians have traditionally meditated on Good Friday is by reading and reflecting on the seven last words of Jesus from the cross ... Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament prophecy ...

The Mohicans are an Eastern Algonquin Native American tribe whose territory filled much of today's Hudson River Valley, ...