For 17 years, trail angels Barney and Sandy Mann gave a talk to PCT hikers who stayed at their home before setting off. It changed trail culture forever.

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.

A new book uncovers the lost art of letterlocking, the ingenious folding and sealing techniques used by everyone from Queen Elizabeth I to Emily Dickinson to keep messages safe from prying eyes.

In The Wheel of Time’s very first episode, trollocs attacked the quaint farming village known as the Two Rivers, calling on ...