Enigma From the East

A Soviet émigré’s never-ending battle to be understood

Between Two Millstones by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; translated by Peter Constantine

The Guru of Athens

Can age-old philosophy lead the way to happiness?

Aristotle's Way by Edith Hall

Making Himself at Home

A German-born composer and his English oratorios

Handel in London by Jane Glover

The Portrait Master

Known for rendering others, a writer turns his attention inward

The Patch by John McPhee

The Death of Innocents

A look at the silent suffering of those caught in the crossfire

The Bodies in Person by Nick McDonell

The Loyal Opposition

A timely new biography of an avatar of courage and bipartisanship

The Improbable Wendell Willkie by David Levering Lewis

A Poet in Purgatory

An inside look at a literary marriage that ended in disaster

The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2: 1956–1963 edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil

The Runaway Question

How people fleeing bondage helped transform the nation

The War Before the War by Andrew Delbanco

The House for the Soul

Investigating the rhythmic beat at the center of our lives

Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart by Mimi Swartz

Lives of the Artists

The vistas and losses of two great English painters

Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime by Stanley Plumly

Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

Ideology as Anatomy

How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Partsby Helen King

The Creator’s Code

Are humans alone in their ability to make art?

The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AIby David Hajdu

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apartby Nicholas Carr

Barbarity at the Bataclan

A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light

V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the Frenchby John Lambert

Heart of Semi-Darkness

A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors

Masters of Horror and Magic

The German folklorists who helped build a nation

For Want of Touch

The astonishing breadth of our passions

Imperiled Planet

The ecological havoc we’ve wrought

The Burning Earth: A Historyby Sunil Amrith

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