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

The historic city, as well as the outposts of jagged mountains, wide river spots and wide open space bring the early days ...

Some cynics see the renumbering of a classic comic book ... the adventures of Peter Parker. Unfortunately, there’s little about this Spider-Man title so far to merit the adjective “amazing.” ...