With so many modern moms recording their baby’s first steps, words and days of school on Facebook or Instagram, it may not be immediately obvious why having a physical memory book for your baby is ...

When I was young, my mom had the foresight to ask my grandparents to fill out a memory book for me. Now an heirloom, the book captured the details of their childhoods and their lives — those precious ...

“The Book of Memory” by Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah is a fiercely vivid novel that in some places — particularly, unfortunately, its opening pages — takes itself too seriously. Some paragraphs ...

During the Jewish diaspora, special volumes were created to preserve the recollection of towns and villages that had been erased in the Holocaust.

A decade or so ago, I messaged Kazu Kibuishi, the creator of the “Amulet” graphic novels, to tell him how much the books meant to my kids and me. He’d posted a video online of his Bolt City ...

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What happens when you slowly start to forget everything about who you are? In The Memory Book, Lara Avery introduces us to Sammie McCoy, a girl who always has a plan. Her major goal in life? To get ...

One of the best things about writing this column is that there’s always something to share with you, whether it’s a good book or an interview with an author or bookseller or something else, like these ...