Mark Synnott admits in the introduction to his new book that “it is out in the high and wild places in this world that I’ve ...

The work, by journalist Alexandra Robbins, followed a dozen students around a pressure-cooker high school during the college admissions process. These students fought—mostly verbally, sometimes ...

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 nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.