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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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? ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·