History tends to sand people down into symbols. Complexity gets flattened into lessons, contradictions into footnotes, and inconvenient truths into silence. The figures we’re taught to admire—or ...
Bruce Handy, in his 2017 book about children’s literature, “Wild Things,” confesses that he always imagined the writer Margaret Wise Brown to be a dowdy old lady “with an ample lap”—just like the ...
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