Topline: The Spanish-American War ended in 1898, but it took over a century for Congress to completely stop charging a ...

The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world’s savviest and most accomplished political novelist. By Dwight Garner Once upon a time, during the last quarter of the 20th century, it was ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

Peruvians mourned the death on Monday of lauded writer Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and a ...

You can be for or against the tariff war. I suppose every ... second-largest market for Spanish still wines and the first for sparkling wines. There is a growing American tradition, a kind of ...

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

The Peruvian flag flew at half-staff Monday as the South American country grieved the passing of literary great Mario Vargas ...

Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa was the last survivor of a golden generation of Latin American literary giants, his writing ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

He helped lead the Latin American “boom” of literary fiction in the 1960s, a burst of creativity and stylistic ...

Historian Benjamin Heber Johnson, reared in Houston, retells Texas history in a way that will appeal to a broad range of the state's readers.