Ludwig Bemelmans was a prolific and imaginative illustrator, author, essayist, and painter, as well as a renowned restauranteur. His impressionistic illustrations for his "Madeline" books and his other writings for children were and still remain a...

Ludwig Bemelmans Hotel Bemelmans. Overlook, 302 pages, $24.95 Lugwig Bemelmans is best known for his Madeline books. But he is also a dazzling writer on the demimonde. Bemelmans was the sort of expatriate who never let reality get in the way of...

ADULT PUBLISHING has its posthumous Hemingway; now children's literature gets a newly discovered Madeline adventure. With the October publication of Madeline in America: And Other Holiday Tales by Ludwig Bemelmans and grandson John Bemelmans Marciano (Scholastic/Levine), cynics could be forgiven for wondering if...

The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss. W.W. Norton, 252 pages, $23.95.There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid....

I guess I should try to like-or at least understand-some of the summer schlock that pours up from Hollywood hell every year, when the weather turns unbearable and otherwise sane people think nothing of throwing away large chunks of mad money to seek air-conditioned relief...