Book Reviews

Chain Gang

The personalities behind one of Rome’s greatest treasures

by Ingrid D. Rowland | Thursday, March 14, 2024

Saving Michelangelo’s Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution · by Wayne Kalayjian

The Jazz Singer

A new biography of an American legend

by Farah Jasmine Griffin | Monday, March 04, 2024

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year · by Paul Alexander

Thought Experimenter

Will AI really make our world better?

by Sam Kean | Monday, March 04, 2024

The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots · by Daniela Rus and Gregory Mone

We’ve Gone Mainstream

Latinos are invisible no more

by Ilan Stavans | Monday, March 04, 2024

LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority · by Marie Arana

Invisible Ink

Giving center page to an era’s forgotten writers

by Teri Ellen Cross Davis | Monday, March 04, 2024

Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance · by Ramie Targoff

Our Pets, Our Plates

In defense of the furred and the hoofed

by Anne Matthews | Monday, March 04, 2024

Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals · by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

Acting Out

One tortuous journey from stage to screen

by Rachel Shteir | Monday, March 04, 2024

Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? · by Philip Gefter

The Choice Is Ours

Survival of the most meaningful

by John Kaag | Monday, March 04, 2024

Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existence · by Samuel T. Wilkinson

The Quest for Cather

When subjects play hard to get

by Anne Matthews | Thursday, February 15, 2024

Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylor · by Benjamin Taylor

Thunder in Her Head

A new biography of a master choreographer

by Jerome Charyn | Thursday, February 01, 2024

Errand into the Maze: The Life and Work of Martha Graham · by Deborah Jowitt

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