In the work of artists I admire, all the training and discipline come out in an act of letting go: a splotch of ink, a ...

It seems unfair to announce a list of best books without revealing the criteria of judgment. It is true that the vogue for identity politics that has swept into children’s literature (and the ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss Jennifer Krauss is the children’s books editor at the ...