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James Richardson’s aphorisms; Nora Lange’s novel “Us Fools”

His art included cartoons for The New York Times, collaborations with Elie Wiesel and images that traced the history of antisemitism. He was also a dermatologist.

Roz, the beloved protagonist of Peter Brown’s popular children’s book, gets a glow-up for the big-screen adaptation.

He produced an early photo book about what he called the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” documented his grandfather’s dementia and became a filmmaker.

He created one of the first photo books about the Vietnam War — the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” he called it — and later documented his grandfather’s struggle with dementia.

His publication, Tikkun, was a leading voice for left-wing American Jews. His ideas about “the politics of meaning” were embraced by Hillary Clinton.

After our series on how artists have been affected by loss, we asked readers what helped them when they experienced it. These are 15 of their answers.

She was the first openly gay woman to write a comic book about lesbians. She went on to write detective novels with a queer woman in the lead.

The second in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.

Discussion about what books children should access has diminished on the national stage. But most rules pertaining to schools and libraries are made at the state and local level.