This image, of two little boys absolutely spackled with goo, appears on page 11 of Alex Danchev’s new biography, Magritte: A Life, and would not leave my mind until I had turned the final one. It ...

Any parent could tell you that. The things they say and do can be completely off the wall and reflect a different reality than the one that we experience — and then we train it out of them, and wonder ...