Book Reviews
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 ·
Building Up and Breaking Down
What happens when the structures we erect plunge us into despair?
by Amanda Kolson Hurley | Thursday, September 01, 2022
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy ·
Jena-Gadda-Da-Vida
The brief flowering of an intellectual mecca in 1790s Germany
by Steven G. Kellman | Thursday, September 01, 2022
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self ·
The Ephemeral Art
How a Russian impresario revolutionized dance
by Vivien Schweitzer | Thursday, September 01, 2022
Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World ·
Zeal of the Convert
A new biography charts a Peruvian seeker’s spiritual quest
by Randy Rosenthal | Thursday, September 01, 2022
The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Landy (trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman) ·
Morals, Meaning, and Nonsense
Ethical inquiry requires lived experience, not just logical examination
by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen | Monday, August 15, 2022
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life ·
Different People, Different Stories
On the complexities of lumping psychiatric patients into categories
by Kathryn Tabb | Monday, August 01, 2022
he Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind ·
More Than a ‘Mere Echo’
English versions of foreign literature must stand on their own
by Lauren Elkin | Monday, July 11, 2022
Translating Myself and Others ·
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