For kids, Saturday morning is sacred. You wake up maybe around 7:30 a.m. and you head downstairs in your pajamas. You find your favorite cereal, pour it in your special giant bowl and add the milk.

“If you’d asked me about hypnosis then, I’d have told you it was nonsense,” she confesses. “But I was always very good at relaxing patients and talking them through treatment and I began ...

Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a literary sensation. By Richard Fausset Richard Fausset reported ...