From record stores to arcades to multinational corporations, classic movies have classic fake businesses that we all have come to know and love (or hate). It must be fun to come up with the names of ...

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Sex books written 40 years ago are among the 273 publications which will soon be unbanned after the Censorship of Publications Board is finally abolished.

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.

The year the L.A. Times Festival of Books debuted was also a landmark year in American letters, shaping literary culture in ...

Life in the tiny borough of Englishtown has attracted unusual headlines with the choice of an ex-mobster to join the council.

Adapted from the eponymous comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., the film is a landmark in superhero cinema. It wasn’t a commercial success, nor did it turn the titular superhero into a ...