The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

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

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These 12 historical fiction books capture love, loss, and resilience in the face of tragedy, leaving readers deeply moved.

I’ve been in a lot of gunfights. I know what it sounds like to be shot at.” Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza take us inside their harrowing real-time war film.

American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and a Forever Promise Forged in World War II" revolves around 12 people whose lives were ...

Historical novelists Chris Bohjalian and Christina Baker Kline for a discussion about Bohjalian’s latest book, “The Jackal’s Mistress.” ...

The novel opens with a bang, but there’s a thin, repetitive feel to the based-in-fact tale of a Confederate woman’s saving a ...

Chris Bohjalian’s 25th novel, “The Jackal’s Mistress,” was inspired by the true story of a Southern woman who helped an injured Union soldier during the Civil War.

Rebel Falls by Tim Wendel is the winner of the 2025 W.Y. Boyd Literary Award “for excellence in military fiction.” The book was published by Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press in 2024 ...

Only Wallace Stegner could, as his protagonist says, “make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these.” ...