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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.

MacNolia Cox speaks only one sentence in a picture book about her trip to the 1936 national spelling bee. Zaila Avant-garde, the 2021 champ, writes volumes.

How do you explain the democratic process to future voters? Start with these lively picture books and compelling histories.

When “I’m sorry for your loss” isn’t going to cut it, young readers might find solace, and solidarity, in story time.

In four new picture books, lions, tigers and house cats stand in for young children as they rein in wild emotions or finally let out a roar.

Sydney Smith, Allen Say and Linda Shute explore the many facets of our recollections.

Sometimes our reflections have nothing to do with us; sometimes they’re “the hide to our seek.”

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

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.

“Giving myself freedom” has been Chris Kraus’s goal as a writer, whether in autofiction about her romantic life or in her new and surprising “working-class saga.”