Book Reviews
More Than Mere Words
The strange allure of the printed page
by Steven G. Kellman | Thursday, January 26, 2023
Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers ·
Have Trowel, Will Travel
A new biography of 20th-century America’s greatest landscape architect
by Penelope Rowlands | Monday, December 19, 2022
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon ·
Our Founding Contradiction
The entrenched dichotomy at the center of the national story
by Fergus M. Bordewich | Thursday, December 01, 2022
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765–1795 ·
Head of the State
How the FBI’s founding director ruled from the shadows
by Charles Trueheart | Thursday, December 01, 2022
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century ·
Structural Foundations
The buildings that defined the Western world
by Amanda Kolson Hurley | Thursday, December 01, 2022
The Story of Architecture ·
Quark of Habit
Scientists keep pushing for larger particle colliders—but is this really wise?
by Sabine Hossenfelder | Thursday, December 01, 2022
The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World ·
Beauty Born of Ashes
The story of a lyrical masterpiece that almost wasn’t
by A. E. Stallings | Thursday, December 01, 2022
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem ·
To Hell and Back
An Italian master’s unlikely depictions of Dante’s dark vision
by Graeme Wood | Monday, November 07, 2022
Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance ·
Of Dharma and Doom
A fresh translation revives the ending of an ancient Indian epic
by Sunil Iyengar | Monday, September 05, 2022
After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata ·
Power of the Peoples
American history was shaped as much by Native Americans as by their colonizers
by Andrew Graybill | Thursday, September 01, 2022
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America ·
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