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.

They say necessity is the mother of invention and in Petaluma, two mothers are teaming up to invent a new kind of coffee shop ...

Subsequent governments have deliberately ignored the definition of devolution, which should have meant devolving power from the central government to the local governments. This is wrong and I have ...