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.

The esteemed critic Harold Bloom, a native speaker of Yiddish, called Chaim Grade one of the four greatest writers in the ...

Hearing again those magical, mesmerizing tunes from “Fiddler On The Roof”, it's hard to believe that one of Broadway’s greatest musicals is now over sixty ...

Chris’s career as a writer includes 20 books, with autobiographies of Hull-born Joe Longthorne and Tony Christie; Coronation ...

Mumbai: A 30-year-old unmarried mother was on Saturday convicted and sentenced to two years of rigorous imprisonment for abandoning a newborn girl in 2020. The sessions court observed that the ...

Daredevil's complex character brought a fresh perspective to the MCU with gritty, character-driven storylines. Thanos stands out as a well-executed villain with depth, showcasing a mix of ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. An 11-year-old has written a book featuring a main character who has vitiligo to encourage young people to “embrace” what makes them ...

Every now and then there is a book with a character so well-written, so well-developed, that you instantly fall in love with them. 1.The Lonesome Dove series: "I would read a hundred books about ...