If world politics today is changing worlds, it was no less so in late 18th century Britain; there was the American War of ...

Visitors will marvel at the vividness of the royal drapes with the emblems of the kings of Dahomey (today Benin) and see the ...

A man who authorities said scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and broke into the ...

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

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.

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 ...

The movement to which the Nobel laureate belonged promoted the hyperbolic freedom of a fiction that was unlimited and ...