Book Reviews
Seconds from Midnight
Busting the myth that skilled diplomacy saved the world
by Gregg Herken | Friday, April 16, 2021
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis ·
Swimming the River of Song
How a young scholar demystified the ancient oral tradition
by A. E. Stallings | Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry ·
Surviving the Anthropocene
Can we reverse-engineer our way out of catastrophe?
by Stephen J. Pyne | Monday, April 12, 2021
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future ·
TV's Founding Mothers
The women who turned the small screen into a cultural phenomenon
by Jayne Ross | Monday, April 05, 2021
When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today ·
What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
The celebrated depiction of a miracle is, by its very survival, a miracle in itself
by Meryle Secrest | Thursday, March 18, 2021
Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast ·
Artist of Excess
The man who painted his century’s nightmare
by Sierra Bellows | Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Francis Bacon: Revelations ·
Order Amid Chaos
A poet-scientist considers the imponderables of existence
by Sam Kean | Monday, February 15, 2021
Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings ·
Cultural or Criminal?
How to explain Texas’s hunger for executions
by Lincoln Caplan | Monday, February 08, 2021
Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty ·
Family Secrets
A writer’s personal quest to expose a mass murderer who escaped punishment
by Charles Trueheart | Monday, February 01, 2021
The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive ·
Outbreaks and Outcomes
Plagues thrive on more than just pathogens
by Graeme Wood | Monday, December 21, 2020
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History ·
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