Arts & Life

Picture Book ImageCredit… ANOTHER, by Christian Robinson. (Atheneum, $17.99.) Robinson’s first book as both author and illustrator is a wordless story about a girl and her cat who discover a portal into another world, where children and pets encounter mirror versions of themselves. ImageCredit… GOOD BOY, by Sergio Ruzzier. (Atheneum, …

FILE PHOTO: The New York Stock Exchange is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York, September 21, 2015. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Monday’s slide in U.S. stocks prompted at least one large investors to load up big on stock options that would guard against a sharper …

BOSTON (Reuters) – As U.S. corporate jet use approaches pre-financial crisis levels and chief executives take an increasing number of personal trips on the company tab, many investors are being kept in the dark about the true cost of the perk. FILE PHOTO: A Gulfstream 650ER business jet is displayed …

“You are hereby warned,” Ralph Ellison wrote to his friend Albert Murray in 1951, “that I have dropped the shuck.” After years of struggle and doubt, Ellison had finished “Invisible Man,” his epic of midcentury African-American life. The novel would win the National Book Award. His life was about to …

FILE PHOTO: A letter written by Queen Elizabeth I of England is inspected at Christies auctioneers in London before its sale June26, 2007. The auction of The Albin Schram Collection of Autograph Letters will be held in London in July. REUTERS/James Boardman LONDON (Reuters) – Elizabeth I, one of England’s …

Marilyn Yalom, a prolific feminist author and cultural historian whose subjects included the history of women as partners in marriage as well as the history of the female breast, died on Nov. 20 at her home in Palo Alto, Calif. She was 87. Her son Reid Yalom said the cause …

Recently, I made a list of my very favorite children’s literary novels that included classics as well as recent books. I was surprised to see that the vast majority of them were under 200 pages. That seemed like great news for any kid who struggles reading big chunks of text, …

You might think the details of your baby’s everyday life would make for a boring book. You’d be very, very wrong! Every baby needs books that let him look at images of other babies, and shows him how they go through their days. These picks are as dependable as they …

FILE PHOTO: Workers install a portrait due to be sold at auction by Christie’s on November 27 which depicts composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as a teenager, painted in January 1770, and attributed to Veronese master Gaimbettino Cignaroli, in Paris, November 12, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo PARIS (Reuters) – A rare …

I have three kids, so I can talk for hours about the fascinating differences in the ages at which individual children reach milestones like walking, talking and reading, even within the same family. My first child didn’t walk until 16 months and started to read at age 5. My third …