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 nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

In her newly released book, the author explores themes of self-acceptance through a woman's lust for airplanes.

The award-winning, best-selling author wrote the novels behind The Friend starring Naomi Watts and The Room Next Door with ...

China Miéville, known for his "new weird" fiction, said sci-fi is a reflection of the present rather than a road map to be ...

For the 6-year-old crowd, the Cybertruck is an unproblematic symbol of awesome. It doesn't matter if Elon Musk's popularity ...

Read any strange books lately? Sometimes it seems that fiction is getting wackier and wackier. Bonkers books are not exactly new (Tristram Shandy? Naked Lunch? Finnegan’s Wake?), but publishers ...

The ALA defines a challenge as a “formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that materials be ...

Dive into the bizarre and brilliant worlds of these seven must-read novels, each with fantastical plots that stretch the imagination and tug at the heartstrings. From mysterious transformations to ...

A new media shop, specializing in horror literature, DVDs and VHS has arrived in Portland, aiming to build connections in the ...

Just to make sure, I ran that question past the official name-game guru of the Weird and Wild column, David Benjamin Firstman, author of the great book, “The Hall of Name.” Here’s his ...