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History buffs beware: There’s a new fantasy writer in town, and he’s coming for your past.

Something new is coming to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. L. A. is the world capital of storytelling, and books are just the beginning. With virtual reality, video games, podcasts, TV and movies, there are more ways to tell a story than ever before. At this year's Festival of Books, the

There's an unkind stereotype out there that Angelenos are loathe to crack open a book. If that's true, how do you explain the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books? Last year, 150,000 people flocked to the city's biggest celebration of reading and storytelling. This year, the 23rd Festival of Books

“Green Mansions,” by W. H. Hudson celebrates, among other things, a tropical habitat now threatened.

In his funny, bighearted new novel, “Anatomy of a Miracle,” Jonathan Miles skewers faith, fame and what the truth means to different people.

The disagreement over the characterization of Atticus Finch expands to a second lawsuit between the producers and the Lee estate.

Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for music on Monday, providing arguably the biggest surprise as the awards for arts and letters were announced Monday in New York. Lamar is the first hip-hop artist to win the Pulitzer’s music category, which traditionally has honored classical

'The Pope Who Would Be King' details the birth of the modern papacy

As a child, the author was taken with the sunshine and beaches. He now spends every summer there because “nothing ever changes.”

In a sign of high expectations for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the producers and theater owners spent lavishly, even paying Cirque du Soleil to clear out of the space.

I came to know death through short stories. I was nine years old. The only human I knew who had died was our elderly next door neighbor, and my four siblings and I only saw the ambulance. Closed doors and red light — not the man, who had a heart attack.

Selections for April: “Thirsty,” “My Once and Future Duke” and “Her Perfect Affair.”

And T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ gets a fantastic new recording by Jeremy Irons and Eileen Atkins

The slums of Mumbai, the coffee of Yemen and America’s founding documents are among the book topics of 10 authors who will speak this year in Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures’ Ten Evenings series at Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland. All but one writer have never appeared at Carnegie Music Hall.

'Neruda' plumbs the man behind the legend