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

Lately I have been thinking about the role that film literacy should play in the lives of educated, curious people — and, on that basis, which old movies I want my children to have caught at least ...

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.

Selling more than 190 million copies, this series follows Kristy, Claudia, Stacey, and a crew of other local children who start their own babysitting business. With about 250 books in the series (plus ...

Bimal Roy's 'Devdas', a 1955 classic, is a poignant masterpiece of Indian cinema. Dilip Kumar's portrayal of a doomed lover ...

The catch? Moms generally are extremely busy, and with very different schedules from one another. “I realize, at this stage ...

The Irish writer chooses her favourite books. Her collection of essays ... This Italian writer, who died in 1991, wrote essays about family, life and craft, but her novellas are so compelling ...

First published in 1983 and edited by Toni Morrison, this lost classic chronicles the exploits of a black party girl making her way in Detroit and New York City in a time of sexual liberation ...

Netflix will be adapting Jane Austen's iconic novel Pride and Prejudice into a six-episode limited series, but fans have been left unimpressed.

But fans say they are not happy with the casting. Emma Corrin (Nosferatu, Black Mirror) has been cast as Elizabeth Bennet, Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Benediction) will portray Mr Darcy, and Olivia ...

On the 40th anniversary of their formation, we look back at how the group went from being just four friends to the best-selling R&B group of all time.

The Malayalam edition of the Mini Krishnan-helmed collections of newly translated classic short stories offers ... throughlines across Krishnan's three books is the introductory pieces ...