Pohela Boishakh, or Poila Baisakh, marks the Bengali New Year. Celebrations occur in West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, and Bangladesh. The festival signifies new beginnings and hope. The Bengali calendar ...

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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.

The year the L.A. Times Festival of Books debuted was also a landmark year in American letters, shaping literary culture in ways that remain with us nearly three decades on.

Extreme adventurer Mark Synnott is out with his third book, chronicling his attempt to sail through the Northwest Passage in ...