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Amina Khan, and it’s Friday, Feb. 12. Here’s the latest on what’s happening with the coronavirus, plus ways to spend your holiday weekend and a look at some of the week’s best stories. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Folks, this is my last day writing this newsl...

7 Resources on Translating Blackness, Race, and Racism Five years ago, John Keene published “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness,” a clarion call for more Afro-diasporic literature in English translation, noting the exclusion of Black writers from the already marginalized market of translated literature. Even greater than the dearth of Black literature in translation is the dearth of Black translators into English, not to mention the lack of writing about translating Blackness—evide...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. This morning we’ll be sharing our compendium of some of the best California writing of 2020. California contains multitudes. This is a state of 40 million people — a place so big that there have been at least 220 recorded attempts to break it up. Which is all to say that even a hundred stories couldn’t capture the entirety of the California experience during this historic year. Adve...