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.

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on ...

Grande’s memoir, A Dream Called Home, chronicles Grande’s journey to UC Santa Cruz and becoming a best-selling author ...

Sherlock Holmes adaptations have varied widely in the century since he was created, but the best modern retellings all have ...

The X-Men have one of the most interesting histories of any superhero team. They started out in the Silver Age as Marvel’s ...

The panel chose Milkman by Anna Burns (2018) as the best Irish fiction book of the 21st century. John McGahern’s That They May Face The Rising Sun (2002) finished in second place, with Solar ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral ... but rarely do they merit a book review or a position on end-of-year reading lists. Yet the medium evolves even when it ...