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A new exhibition in Paris explores how Tove Jansson imagined a kind world that reflected her values as a lesbian artist and ardent pacifist.

In “The Halt During the Chase,” by Rosemary Tonks — first published in 1972, and newly reissued — a young woman goes in search of herself.

Montana calls to storytellers: The cold clear waters of its rivers have carried the voices of its inhabitants from time immemorial, says Debra Magpie Earling, one of its writers. Here, she recommends her favorites.

Over a 60-year career, he illustrated some 100 books of fairy tales, poetry and memoirs, and won three Caldecott Medals.

The author blends polemic and family history in a fragmentary memoir, “A Man of Two Faces.”

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Paul Harding and Cristina Rivera Garza are among the honorees. Winners will be announced next month.

The inductees will be honored at New York Comic Con on Oct. 13. Five are from the world of superheroes, and one is a pioneer of underground comics.

A Dutch novelist envisions the creation of “Frankenstein,” Shelley’s most famous work.

Vincent Bevins’s “If We Burn” and Robert D. Kaplan’s “The Loom of Time” consider protest movements of the past and the drive for democracy in countries like Egypt, Syria and Iraq.

In his fond memoir “Making It So,” the actor traces the path from the working class to the Shakespearean stage to “Star Trek” superstardom.