The authors who wrote these books capture the look, smells, heart and soul of the state of California, both good and bad.

Novelist John Steinbeck, left, and marine biologist Ed ... “He was into Jungian psychology, Nietzsche, Chinese poetry, medieval music, classical music. He corresponded with scientists all ...

While books are ostensibly for anyone with a yearning to learn, sometimes parents, teachers, and school board officials disagree on what kids should or shouldn't read. The result of the push and pull ...

Bridport’s beloved film festival returns this week with the theme speaking to America’s troubling past and present ...

In his great panegyric for that adoptively Welsh poet David Jones ... There is a novel by John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) where the main character is haunted by the crucifixion ...

Mysterious, Human-Shaped Dark ‘Dark Watchers’ Have Been Scaring People for Centuries Now at California’s Big Sur Some ...

Fashion icon John Steinbeck put Positano on the map in 1953 ... Cobbled alleys lead to cafés where 18th‑century poet Abu Said once meditated, and the domed Zaouia shrine crowns the promontory.