Rishi Reddi's "Passage West" plumbs an important story of Indian immigrant farmers, but isn't quite up to the task as fiction

Emily St. John Mandel chronicles a global pandemic and financial crisis in her novels, 'Station Eleven' and 'The Glass Hotel.'

While guests of Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center are stuck through June, canceled residencies across the U.S. endanger an artistic ecosystem.

A brilliant, mercurial and often rebellious poet and critic, would-be translator of Jorge Luis Borges and mentor to John Darnielle and many others.

When COVID-19 hit, spoken-word venues like Da Poetry Lounge and Olivia Open Mic went online, keeping verse flowing and raising funds for artists.

In 'Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery,' the critic travels to Nordic cities to investigate the society that shaped a global phenomenon.

"Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer announced that she is expanding the fantasy franchise with "Midnight Sun," told from vampire heartthrob Edward's perspective.

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Gov. Newsom has taken to calling California a "nation-state" when discussing its efforts to fight the coronavirus. Constitutionally, that's not true.

With social distancing a must, this year's virtual celebration will be long remembered.

America's optimism may have blinded it to the coronavirus. Now, with suffering a part of our daily life, we have a chance to become a mature nation.

Easing sanctions on Iran, hard hit by the coronavirus, would be a humanitarian act that reminds the world of what America truly is.

Trump can't 'reopen' the economy, but Republican governors can follow his lead. If they do, Newsom must continue to protect Californians.

This is what happens when we elect a failed-businessman-turned-reality TV star as president.

These are extraordinary times, and Joe Biden has a number of legislators, mayors and governors who could fill an entire Cabinet.

Trump justifies his actions on coronavirus by saying he's a businessman who doesn't like having a lot of employees. But government is not a business.

Halting funding of the WHO is another in a long line of decisions made by the Trump administration abdicating U.S. leadership on science.

A tent city for homeless veterans? It should not have taken a deadly pandemic for local leaders to come up with that solution.

Ron Reagan, son of the late president, was in an ad for an atheist interest group. He should have just kept his nonbelief to himself.

Clean energy wants a level playing field with fossil fuels and nuclear power. It needs government funding for that to happen.

Dr. Anthony Fauci deserves something like combat pay for guiding the nation with his scientific expertise while also doing enough not to get fired.

A writer criticized atheist activist Ron Reagan. In a sign of the times, that letter drew howls of protest from readers.

The president might not like to work, but the people who think and act for him are very effective at their jobs.

The Postal Service is as important to the United States as its language and its highways. Losing it would forever change the country for the worse.

Protesters violating every rule on fighting COVID-19, with the support of the president, show how badly we need competent leadership.

When doctors are given N95 masks but the nurses who frequently come into contact with sick patients do not, you know something's wrong.

We're still divided into red state and blue states. Of course we aren't coming together with a disaster like the COVID-19 pandemic raging on.

No Democratic candidates called for social distancing before Super Tuesday, and now the left is Monday-morning quarterbacking the president.

The state isn't doing right by undocumented immigrants with a financial relief program that does nothing to address abusive labor practices.

State preemption has been used against local governments on a number of issues; it would be a mistake for that to happen now amid coronavirus fears.

A call to split the U.S. into separate republics based on our deep political divisions draws support from readers.

Rarely does any group of people draw so many howls of protest from readers as the anti-lockdown demonstrators.

If you're a cancer patient, you should not avoid treatment because of the pandemic. Surgery and follow-up care cannot wait.

Publishing photos of maskless tourists romping in poppy fields does not help the cause of social distancing.

Calendar Feedback: Is competence sexy? Readers on whether it trivializes Dr. Fauci to call him 'sexy.' Plus, differing opinions on the Peter Zumthor design of LACMA.

If most beaches in Southern California are closed, so should those in Orange County, which attracted thousands of people on a hot weekend.

It's too dangerous to have Trump remain president for another eight months during a pandemic. Let Mike Pence take over.

Not everything has to go back to normal after the pandemic, including L.A. traffic. More businesses need to make working from home permanent.

A resident of Sedona, Ariz., did not appreciate an L.A. Times story on wealthy out-of-towners fleeing to their second homes.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a full-blown disaster, but if shortages mean Americans eat less meat as a result, then so be it.

The author of the Americans With Disabilities Act warns that coronavirus treatment that takes disability and age into account is immoral and illegal.

There's no evidence that the use of plastic bags prevents exposure to the coronavirus, so why use them instead of reusable bags?

Republicans didn't seem to care that Trump had multiple credible allegations against him; why should one accusation against Biden derail his candidacy?

A professor's suggestion for college student to take time off and turn out the vote is nice, but why not help them with the loan debt first?

"right to literacy": children learn to read mostly at home

Democrats who expect all voters sick of President Trump to vote for Joe Biden are insulting people who care more about the issues than the party.

It's simply wrong when a much younger person dies. Let younger patients take the ventilator if there's a scarcity -- and let doctors make the decision.

Californians feel hopeless, so some are protesting. The solution is to limit access to public spaces without completely closing them.

Professors don't want us living in single-family homes, the only option for average people to own something all their own.