James Ellroy walked onstage Saturday in teal slacks, a bubble-gum pink button-up and white Converse sneakers, motioning for the L.A. Times Festival of Books audience to keep up its roar of applause ...

Freddy Otash, the human train wreck at the heart of James Ellroy's new novel, "Widespread Panic," has a confession to make. Many confessions, actually. At least that's how Ellroy, the dean of Los ...

Bruising ex-cop, grubby private eye, Hollywood fixer and confidant Freddy Otash was the kind of behind-the-scenes figure who kept crawling toward the limelight. Stars and starlets sought his services, ...

Curtis Hanson's 1997 film adaptation of L.A. Confidential introduced many to mystery writer James Ellroy's world, a vicious twist on the postcard-perfect West Coast dreamland filled with indiscernible ...

James Ellroy is one of the great American authors of the last 50 years, and yet, it is easy to dismiss his literary achievement. If you were to pick up his latest novel, Red Sheet, and turn to a ...

It turns out the history books have it all wrong. Richard Nixon was a hero. Dalton Trumbo was a snitch. And Elia Kazan, the most notorious name-namer of them all, was simply a courageous patriot who ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. Set in 1962 Los Angeles, “Red Sheet” follows the murder and mayhem behind a “mini Red Scare.” By William T. Vollmann From ...

Uniting “Mad Men”-type period stylings and the crime solving fundamental to half of network television, a television series sequel to 1997’s “L.A. Confidential” seems like it’d be a solid small screen ...

James Ellroy’s rampage through American history continues, more furiously than ever, in “This Storm,” the second volume in a projected sequence titled the Second L.A. Quartet. The original quartet, ...