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This is not some placid, ideal garden, but a real one — edgy, animate and bustling.

A poem that overlays love onto a previously loveless surface of the world.

The easy way of seeing the world begins to look like a socially convenient illusion.

A historian as well, he challenged, with a muckraker’s spirit, the political and corporate establishment of a country he adopted after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.

An evocation of motherhood as negative capability.

The jury for the memoir category had raised concerns that the citizenship requirement was excluding a large part of American culture.

Cat Bohannon’s book, “Eve,” looks at the way women’s bodies evolved, and how a focus on male subjects in science has left women “under-studied and under-cared for.”

The books in Peter Brown’s “Wild Robot” trilogy were the first to wallop my son with the mix of tragedy and joy that define great art and also real life.

A domestic scene where the home is not a place of safety or comfort but a site of labor.