The Arts & Entertainment staff decided to sit down and plot out some of the highlights for this year's festival. Their picks cover panels, performances, readings and even individual booths to visit. Each recommendation corresponds to a location on the enlargeable map on the left. Match number to number, then find your way to some of the 13th festival's highlights. Read more...

Reading spurs the imagination, triggers contemplation and conjures new ideas, but, by nature, it is also a solitary pursuit. Read more...

A single picture stands out from the infamous dozen that were leaked to the public from Abu Ghraib prison in late 2003. Read more...

Writers from all over the world will be swarming the UCLA campus this weekend. Mixed among these literary expatriates rests a UCLA native. Read more...

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Inky fingers, musty tomes and Prius-driving NPR listeners may very well be intimately associated with the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Read more...

Alex Ross is the classical music critic of The New Yorker. Read more...