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

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your April reading list.

Shahbano Alvi’s short fiction is always easy to read ... She has written children’s books in the past but, in the last five years, Alvi has been especially productive. She has put out two ...