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Justin Torres' novel is a work of art revealing the erasures in LGBTQ history. Ellen Shapiro interviews the author and Farrar, Straus and Giroux's in-ho…

Justin Torres features none of the materials that usually occupy a political novel. There are no riot scenes, no courtroom confrontations. Rather, the primary drama is intimate: the hushed conversations between two men in a hospice.

I do feel pity for letter writer Ron Zimmerman of Mesa. What a sad life it must be to awaken every morning thinking the world is full of "havoc than

In Memoriam:

Fine soil from the Southwest is robbing the Colorado River of critical snowmelt. A scientist who monitors dust’s impact on snow wants state and federal leaders to take a closer look.

People in California's Central Valley who are bracing for flooding, a month after a dozen atmospheric rivers dropped all of that snow on the mountains.

People in California's Central Valley who are bracing for flooding, a month after a dozen atmospheric rivers dropped all of that snow on the mountains.

MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. — Flying thousands of feet above the Sierra Nevada in a plane equipped with specialized imaging devices, Elizabeth Carey has been scanning the mountains with lasers to

Flying over the Sierra Nevada, teams are using lasers to measure California's vast snowpack, tracking flood risks as the snow melts.

Flying thousands of feet above the Sierra Nevada in a plane equipped with specialized imaging devices, Elizabeth Carey has been scanning the mountains with lasers to precisely map the snow.