Tatsuo Miyajima

After months of stay-at-home orders, people are itching for some kind of summer vacation. KCRW talks about options for getting away, and how to do it safely and responsibly.

For many years, visitors often thought of Hollywood as a place of glitz and glamour. But locals knew it as a seedy area.

New releases in all genres.

Elizabeth Wetmore discusses her debut novel, “Valentine,” and Southern conservatism that wants to steer clear of the uglier parts of life.

From the archives: obliquely about Zadie Smith's "On Beauty", this intense, abstract conversation is about what a novel is.

Life and story go hand in hand in Margot Livesey’s “The Boy in the Field.”

Silver Lake’s long-running music venue the Satellite is ending performances and DJ nights.

A Netflix documentary, "Father Soldier Son," spans almost a decade as it tracks a former platoon sergeant, gravely wounded in Afghanistan, and the two young sons who adore him.

When Sally lost her brother to suicide, a friend advised her to be open to the possibility that he would try to visit her from beyond.