Gutsy Andrew Reach is an artist with steel in his spine. His show, “Beyond Pain,” on exhibit at Tip Freeman’s Paintings and Art Gallery, features nearly 40 riotously color-saturated digital works that ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week we speak with lifelong Angeleno Jason De Leon, whose book ...

The phrase "the human condition" has always fascinated me. It was coined in 1958 by the political thinker Hanna Arendt, and summarizes for me the complexities, and both the rewarding and difficult ...

First of a trilogy of films. During the Second World War, a Japanese conscientious objector named Kaji works as a supervisor in a Manchurian prison camp. He hopes to avoid duty as a soldier, but he ...