There’s everything from local history and geography books such as the 1979 first edition of John Feehan’s The Landscape of ...

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

Lea Myren as Elvira and Thea Sofie Loch Naess as Agnes, in THE UGLY STEPSISTER. Courtesy of IFC Films In a dark, twisted re-telling of Cinderella, Norwegian director Blichfeldt’s satiric THE ...

A new exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art puts 17th-century artist phenom Rachel Ruysch back in the spotlight.

This is Meredith Goldstein’s Love Letters newsletter for April 15th. Each week, Meredith shares tales of human connection, ...

You’re reading Meredith Goldstein’s Love Letters newsletter for April 15. Each week, Meredith shares tales of human connection, thoughts on public policy and relationships, and behind-the-scenes ...

Before long, what started as a handful of broken pottery pieces grew to almost 1500, boosted by discovered fragments from as far away as the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean, the east ...

Milan, Italy has a rich, iconic history, and the surrounding wineries aren't to be missed. If you're planning a visit to this ...

1890. Library of Congress The first and longest-ruling mascot of the United States made her debut before the country was even a country, appearing in 17th-century poems and sermons under the name ...

A novel that tricks its readers, another exploring the "incessant gnaw" of grief after death, non-fiction about emigrating to ...

There are many basic but essential facts to be learned about Samuel Johnson. For example, he was born in 1709 and died in 1784. His life spanned the reign of four British Monarchs: Queen Anne ...

Whitman’s line is a claim less about his poetry than about the man ... You cannot imagine someone writing a book called The Peace of the Augustans these days, not because we know so much more about ...