Dan Laurine

The smell of freshly-grown cannabis surrounds specific parts of Carpinteria along California’s Central Coast.

KCRW resumes its conversation with James Andrew Miller, author of “Tinderbox,” the new book about HBO.

Every bookstore is haunted, and Louise Erdrich’s new book, “The Sentence,” is about one.

Few things are universally recognized across the globe.

Who have you missed most during the pandemic — a dear friend you've only seen on Zoom, your uncle with too many political opinions, your grandchildren who are outgrowing their clothes…

Five years ago the Chilean director Pablo Larraín gave us "Jackie," a fictionalized portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy during and immediately after her husband's assassination.

There may come a day when fire-prone areas like Malibu aren’t habitable as climate change makes wildfires more frequent and more difficult to control.

The Netflix documentary “Found” follows three Chinese cousins, adopted as babies by very different American families. Thanks to DNA, the teen girls found each other.

Writer and director Amy Koppleman on the same question all of her work attempts to answer.