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Her time in concentration camps brought her an understanding of humanity that helped her treat her patients.

The best-selling author Stephanie Dray recommends books that explore the bonds between mothers and their children across centuries.

From fashion to art, an explainer on our love of wetlands.

Even admirers admitted his densely intellectual work could be “punishing.” Still, some considered him one of England’s most important poets.

As a child, Lisa Owens aligned herself with the little ones depicted in these books; now it was the harried adults who captivated her.

“Wild Swans,” a best-selling 1991 memoir, told the story of a stoic mother holding her family together amid torture and imprisonment under Mao’s regime.

“The Things We Never Say” leaves behind Crosby, Maine, for Massachusetts, where a middle-aged history teacher discovers a long-buried family secret.

“A Rumor of War,” about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed “the things men do in war and the things war does to them.”

The filmmakers behind this adaptation of a best-selling novel were adamant that their ovine sleuths not seem like humans in, well, sheep’s clothing.

In “One Leg on Earth,” a young college grad’s idealistic move to Lagos turns into a nightmare.