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 ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Lea Uradu, J.D., is a Maryland state registered tax preparer, state-certified notary public, ...