In the 1990 hip-hop anthem “Fight the Power,” Chuck D of Public Enemy slammed Elvis Presley. Elvis may have been “a hero to most,” but for the militantly conscious rapper, that “sucker” was a ...

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In the wake of disaster in Texas, one community is relying on its volunteer fire department, the backbone of the Hill Country ...

Juan Pablo Di Pace’s movie about memory, longing, time, and family is like a set of Russian nesting Matryoshka dolls.

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Kathleen Lance, Denver I read the library hard copy of this book two years before the paperback came out this year, and had ...

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 nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

I need a book for my family book club — it’s my turn to pick. The only rule is that the author has to be Black. I try to recommend sci-fi/fantasy or magical realism to my family when it’s my pick ...

December 25 has been Christmas for the past 1,688 years … and more about the holiday’s history.

The famous Christmas poem above — nearly everybody calls it “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” but the actual name is the one shown above — was written on Christmas Eve 1822 by ...

So began a 1912 article in The New York Times, which went on to give a thumbnail history of “A Visit From St. Nicholas” — usually referred to these days as “The Night Before Christmas ...

Every holiday, we embrace 'A Christmas Carol.' But some of Charles Dickens' other Christmas books were even more popular in his time.