He Loved Everyone in Trinidad: On Martin J. Smith’s “Going to Trinidad”
A Colorado doctor put his town on the map for gender confirmation surgery. The town didn’t celebrate it.
A Colorado doctor put his town on the map for gender confirmation surgery. The town didn’t celebrate it.
One of Africa’s most dangerous dictators also happens to be the one most beloved by the West.
LARB politics editor Tom Zoellner reports from the Nevada caucuses.
Los Angeles lost a beloved local writer and his friends remember him.
An adventure novelist talks about fishing, kayaking, friendship, and God.
Tom Zoellner talks to British-Ghanaian writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes about his new novel, "Tail of the Blue Bird."
A lion of Lebanese literature reflects on art, religion, memory, and pain.
A Lebanese essayist speaks out against the domination of the body.
Joe Donnelly talks about L.A. culture, the art of the interview, the formalism of celebrity profiles, and his ideal partner for a long road trip.
Tom Zoellner on the Zodiac Killer and the man who's still searching for him.
A gorgeous photo album of America’s unvisited places of its troubled past.
The “L. A. Times” editorial board indicts the 45th president.