These books offer a fresh take on some of the best classic stories. Courtesy the publishers The classics are the classics for a reason. To rewrite them runs the risk of producing something that ...

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.

And then there are the following. Not all of these books ultimately made it onto our end-of-year, best-of lists (check out our 100 Notable Books and 10 Best Books of 2024 to see what did make the ...