So after years of trying to learn more about Halverson, he put together an exhibit, Janet Halverson: An Introduction, at the gallery to show off her book covers. “She was a book designer.

This is bad for business. It’s certainly bad for authors.” It can also have a negative effect on the very population the book bans are supposed to help. Children’s book author and illustrator Jeanette ...

Both of these novels, Pages of Mourning and The Cemetery of Untold Stories, from an emerging writer and a long-celebrated one, respectively, walk an open road of remembering love, grief, and fate.

By Azam Ahmed. Random House; 384 pages; $28. Fleet; £22 Since the early 2000s, the number of Mexicans who have disappeared and not yet been found has risen from a handful to more than 100,000.

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With the backing of nearly 100 pages of endnotes, Foscarinis lays out the hard facts: homelessness is a policy failure, not a personal one. That isn't the only myth she dismantles.

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Lives. By Adam Smyth. Basic Books; 400 pages; $32. Bodley Head; £25 ...