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.

Ironically and tragically, Aram's story repeats the history of the Aiel in The Wheel of Time, after he gives up the Way of ...

Palestinian filmmaker and activist Hamdan Ballal, who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," has reportedly been released after being attacked during an alleged ambush by ...

Story Land and Water Country are among a handful of New England attractions being sold to a new owner. Palace Entertainment, which owns the New Hampshire parks, is selling all of its 20-plus U.S ...

Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian director who won an Oscar three weeks ago for his documentary film “No Other Land,” was released by Israeli forces Tuesday after being detained the day prior ...

Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, one of the two Palestinian co-directors behind the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was detained Monday in the occupied West Bank by the Israeli military ...

Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he ... could come at any time.

UPDATE: Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Israel-Palestine documentary “No Other Land,” has been freed ... masked man pushing another individual, before the individuals filming flee back ...

Basel Adra, from left, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham, winners of the best documentary feature film for No Other Land, pose in the press room at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in ...

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“They’ve lost me on the pay-for,” Tillis told the media at the time. “The child tax credit doesn’t have any of some of the basic requirements that we would want. It needs to go back in ...