It’s celebrating its first birthday with a week of events and performances, starting with a drag show Thursday that features local stars like Shi-Queeta and Regina Jozet Adams. That’s followed by a DJ ...

Benmont Tench was a founding member of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and has spent decades as a session musician and ...

Many of us have tussled online with internet trolls but did you know that trolling has its roots in Ancient Greece?

To many, William Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist of all time. His works—at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and ...

Although they were written more than 400 years ago, the words of William Shakespeare remain timeless. Thanks in large part to ...

And finally, if your child loves the beauty of poetry and wonders how to create poems, then “The One and Only Rumi” by Rabiah York, illustrated by Maneli Manouchehri (Penguin, $18.99) is a book to ...

The bookstore company featured in the seminal film “When Harry Met Sally,” is reportedly closing two of its brick-and-mortar locations, leaving only one New York City shop open by the end of the month ...

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.

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Shakespeare’s works are, and have always been, profoundly theological — not because they provide answers but because they ...

Many of us remember the 23rd of April as Shakespeare’s birthday or St George’s Day – but now there’s another noteworthy event ...

In September, they’ll be doing just that. The featured speaker of their annual fundraising event—Vive le Livre- will be Andy Weir, the novelist whose book “The Martian” was adapted into the 2015 film ...