These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

A century on, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great Jazz Age novel still speaks to what ails America.

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.

But the idea is still the same! F1 is a fascinating sport with a great deal of history, development, technology, and personnel, with so much to come moving forward. I always enjoy learning more about ...

In “Darkenbloom,” by the Austrian novelist Eva Menasse, the citizens of a European border town have secrets they’d prefer to ...

I should have known better. I have seen what wildfire storms can do to cities and entire towns: Santa Rosa, Paradise, Redding ...

Just after sunrise on Saturday, a satellite set its long-range camera on the city of Mandalay in Myanmar, not far from the epicenter ... took a few more hours for another satellite from San ...

I Know the Whale by Robin Yardi, illustrations by Matt Schu | Photo: Courtesy Children’s book author Robin Yardi has a whale of a signing coming to Chaucer’s on April 6 at 2 p.m. Kids can explore ...

and investors keep plowing money into gold, with futures hitting another record high Monday.

Vaccines are essential for everyone, not just children The idea that vaccines ... Tuck Stibich, Ph.D., MHS, FIDSA, lives in Santa Fe with his partner and four small dogs. His kids go to the ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KION-TV) The Santa Cruz Harbor is seeing another wave of anchovies in its waters Friday, sparking fears of another potential die off, less than six months after the last one. Video ...

Following last week’s 20-second teaser that gave a brief look at Paul Thomas Anderson‘s highly anticipated new project, “One Battle After Another” now has an official trailer. This marks ...