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

New titles explore LGBTQ+ history and activism and offer nonjudgmental guidance.

3 weeks on the list Two new books examine efforts to standardize English orthography and the pronouns at the heart of our culture wars, finding that spelling and usage have never conformed to any ...

From children's books, to nonfiction, to mysteries and LGBTQ+ lit, discover the authors — who were librarians, or still are — ...