LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Jonathan Kirsch is a book columnist for the Los Angeles Times and the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed books "Moses: A Life" and "The Harlot by the Side of the Road." He writes and lectures widely on biblical, literary, and legal topics. Kirsch is a member of the... Read More →

Born in 1948, Julia Boyd worked in London's Victoria & Albert Museum before marriage took her to a series of diplomatic posts including Bonn, New York, Hong Kong and finally Tokyo, where her husband John was British Ambassador. There followed ten years in Cambridge, where John was... Read More →

Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker, an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of Say Nothing, The Snakehead, and Chatter. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Slate, New York, and The New York Review... Read More →

Charles "Chuck" Lane is an American journalist and editor who is an editorial writer for The Washington Post and a regular guest on Fox News Channel. He was the lead editor of The New Republic from 1997 to 1999. After the New Republic, he worked for the Post, where, from 2000 to 2009... Read More →

Steven J. Ross is professor of history at the University of Southern California and director of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life. He is the author of "Hollywood Left and Right," recipient of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Film... Read More →