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

the funniest book ever written. “The Unexpurgated Code” turns 50 this year. It has dropped from sight, and yet here we are at a moment when the world could use it. It’s a book to turn to ...

A book bound by the skin of one of the UK's most notorious murderers has been found in a museum office. The skin is from the late-Georgian murderer William Corder who was hanged at Bury St ...

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 fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.