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How I went from being Team Pa to recognizing Laura Ingalls Wilder’s less charismatic, quietly heroic and equally crazy creation, Caroline Ingalls.

“We live in the world we inherited from them,” the author Dylan Gottlieb says.

The ruins of a 2,400-year-old complex suggest that, to the Greeks of antiquity, Homer’s protagonist was not just a character in a poem but a figure of genuine devotion.

While the Y.A. graphic novel phenomenon wraps up with a sixth volume and a Netflix movie, Alice Oseman mostly reads fiction about adults now.

A Netflix adaptation of the beloved tale empowers Ma and adds new Black and Native characters to challenge prejudices. The creators know criticism is coming.

The film “Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World” works best when it illuminates her work, whose fans include Stephen Colbert and Oprah Winfrey.

Now that Sandra Boynton’s books have crossed generations of child-rearing — and her first, “Hippos Go Berserk!,” is approaching 50 — they deserve another look.

Janet Fash was always outspoken when it came to keeping beachgoers safe. She lays it all out in her feisty new memoir.

The longtime Christopher Nolan collaborator isn’t in the director’s forthcoming Homeric adaptation. But a new audiobook sets Caine’s voice off on its own adventure.

Leaning on a rich written record, the graphic novelist Tillie Walden used nearby resources to visualize the true story of seamstresses who shared a home for decades.