In “Muv,” the biographer Rachel Trethewey looks at the Mitford family matriarch. By Meryl Gordon “Field Notes From an Extinction,” by Eoghan Walls, follows a naturalist who wants to study birds but ...

Andrea Fraser had long felt that she was to blame for the years her mother, Carmen de Monteflores, was overlooked. Now Carmen is 92. Can the Whitney Biennial make amends? By Zachary Small and Lucia ...