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

Unable to afford textbooks while growing up on Japan’s northwest coast, Yoko Breckenridge would borrow them from friends and copy each chapter by hand. Breckenridge, who married an American soldier ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

A curated list of the best new movies streaming in April, from Nicole Kidman's "Babygirl" to Viola Davis' "G20." ...

Comedy, slice-of-life, sports, or an adventure, this trope has a focus on a mostly, if not all, cute female cast doing ...

For manga lovers, there are two options: an e-reader with a good store and an Android e-reader with Google Play.

A woman known as Japan’s ‘Baba Vanga’ has predicted a major disaster to occur in just three months time. Happy Tuesday, everyone. Ryo Tatsuki, a former manga artist, has supposedly been making ...

To mark the finale of her Dales Detective novel series, author Julia Chapman tells Stephanie Smith how Settle became the home ...

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This 500-acre estate in horse country one hour from Manhattan was built in the early 1900s for a Massachusetts heiress, then ...

Other than the flights, our trip is a blank canvas. Can you suggest some essential sights for a couple in their 60s?” ...