The third book in the thriller series featuring private eye Happy Doll fits neatly into the landscape of Chandler, Macdonald, ...

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

All fell generally under the genre of literary fiction, and that might have been where he stayed but for the gift of a Raymond Chandler book some years earlier. “A friend of mine was a huge ...

It’s where the best Los Angeles writers have done their work: literati like Nathanael West (“The Day of the Locust”), John Fante (“Ask the Dust”), Raymond Chandler (“Red Wind”) and ...

I’m sure the artist Mike Mignola has, at some point, drawn a straight line, but it wasn’t recently. In “Bowling With Corpses ...

From Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled detective stories to Dr. Seuss’s whimsical children’s books, the region’s unique landscapes and history have inspired a wide range of literary works.

Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest photo book, 'i shall sing these songs beautifully', captures the haunting essence of New Orleans in ...

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city.

Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist and playwright whose syndicated comic strip ran for four decades, has died. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner was 95.