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.

In 1976, when I read “ Who’s Who in the Cast ,” by Marshall Brickman, I was astounded. The piece, a “casual”—which is what ...

Twisted Metal is adapted from a videogame of the same name and features a lot of larger-than-life characters put into the ...

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia.