A children’s book author stopped by Seedling Mile Elementary School to encourage students to use their imagination.

There is utility to be had in Bill Gates’s memoir of childhood, Source Code: My Beginnings (Knopf, Feb. 4), but there is also joy: the joy at marveling at genius coming into focus — confident, ...

In “The Uncanny Muse,” David Hajdu offers a lively survey of centuries of machines that have served as instruments of ...