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The best-selling bard of female anxiety rakes over some middle school memories while visiting the city where she grew up.

The great author and illustrator was born on Feb. 22, 1925. Gilbert Cruz talks with the Book Review’s Sadie Stein about his distinctive talent and sensibility.

A forgetful bear, a lovesick boy and, yes, George Washington share their views from the bridge.

His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments, transformed debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.

Dark Horse Comics announced it would no longer publish the author and canceled further publication of his “Anansi Boys” series.

When cats bite or scratch, they’re trying to tell you something. Ms. Wilbourn, a cat therapist, was a pioneer in the art of listening to them.

Not in this universe, a new study concludes.

She became a photographer the same year she came out, chronicling the lives of women in same-sex relationships — something most people had never seen.

Writing from Taiwan, she shaped her readers’ idea of romantic love with a raft of best sellers, many adapted for the screen. Newborns were named after her characters.

In the first volume of her memoir (which she hasn’t read), she explores her difficult childhood, her fraught marriage to Sonny Bono and how she found her voice.