Sarah Ferguson, a longtime author, has always been interested in history — royal or otherwise. On Tuesday, the Duchess of York announced she's writing her first novel of historical fiction inspired by the life of her great-great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas…

There’s no use sugarcoating it: 2020 was a trash fire of a year, one plagued by violence, hurricanes and wildfires, by bitter political divisiveness, and by an actual plague. No one was untouched by the coronavirus pandemic, whether they suffered…