LOS ANGELES—Readers attending the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books browse and discuss with volunteers at the Pathfinder Books booth. Among the thousands attending the April 25-26 event at the University of California at Los Angeles, hundreds visited the Pathfinder booth, including several students from University High School who stopped by on the recommendation of their teacher. Top selling books were Communist Manifesto, issues 12 and 14 of the Marxist magazine of theory and politics New International, Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa, Is Socialist Revolution in the U.S. Possible? and several titles by Ernesto Che Guevara and Malcolm X. Visitors purchased 44 subscriptions to the Militant.

—BILL ARTH