"An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period. Polymath and master interviewer Jonathan Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak in 1976 for Rolling Stone, just at the time when Outside Over There, the concluding and by far the strangest...

As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada has read some 150 volumes claiming to diagnose why Trump was elected and what his presidency reveals about our nation. Many of these, he's found, are more defensive than incisive, more righteous than right. Here, Lozada uses these books to tell the story of how we understand ourselves in the Trump era, using as his main characters the political ideas and debates at play in America today. He dissects...

Frances Hodgson Burnett--best known for writing 'The Secret Garden,' 'Little Lord Fauntleroy,' and 'The Little Princess'--had a difficult life, losing her father when she was very young, moving to a new country in the face of economic turmoil, and suffering the loss of a son, and a marriage later in life. But she could imagine anything, and she used her gifts to transform grief and hardship into works of literature that lifted the spirits of people...