In 1962, Barbra Streisand channeled all the emotional turmoil and lyric despair of an abandoned lover into what must be the strangest four minutes of pop music ever written. “Crayons ready?” she ...

In these days of social distancing, I find myself drawn to the comfort of coloring books. I brighten the smile of bunnies having a picnic and blush the lips of two kissers. I animate the empty streets ...

Johanna Basford's intricate hand-drawn coloring books for adults have sold nearly 1.5 million copies worldwide. Courtesy of Johanna Basford/Laurence King Adulthood seems to be having a regressive ...

View of a young girl, filling in sketches in a coloring book, with crayon in hand, New York, 1948. View of a young girl, filling in sketches in a coloring book, with crayon in hand, New York, 1948.Rae ...

When Penguin Random House announced recently that it had acquired world rights to the next two adult coloring books from Johanna Basford, the so-called queen of coloring, it was just the latest sign ...

Crayons, of course. Scented markers. Colored pencils, presharpened. And coloring books by the jillions. Why do people like coloring so much? For grown-ups, I can totally get the nostalgia — and the ...