We’ve Gone Mainstream
Latinos are invisible no more
By Ilan Stavans Monday, March 4, 2024
LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie Arana
Acting Out
One tortuous journey from stage to screen
By Rachel Shteir Monday, March 4, 2024
Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Philip Gefter
The Choice Is Ours
Survival of the most meaningful
By John Kaag Monday, March 4, 2024
Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existence by Samuel T. Wilkinson
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 by Benjamin Taylor
Thunder in Her Head
A new biography of a master choreographer
By Jerome Charyn Thursday, February 1, 2024
Errand into the Maze: The Life and Work of Martha Graham by Deborah Jowitt
The Homesick Composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff may have taken American citizenship in 1943, but his heart and soul remained in his Russian past
By Joseph Horowitz Friday, January 26, 2024
The Creature Eating Its Tail
From progress to death wish
By Randy Rosenthal Monday, January 15, 2024
Heavy Mettle
A story of oppression and resilience
By Teri Ellen Cross Davis Monday, December 18, 2023
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul by Tracy K. Smith
Bodies Grotesque and Beautiful
Searching for aesthetics and meaning in the monstrous
By Sierra Bellows Monday, December 4, 2023
Art Monsters: Unruly Female Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
By Anne Matthews Thursday, December 5, 2024
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Monday, December 2, 2024
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
By Sierra Bellows Monday, December 2, 2024
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?
By Evelyn McDonnell Monday, December 2, 2024
The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AIby David Hajdu
Barbarity at the Bataclan
A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light
By Charles Trueheart Monday, December 2, 2024
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
By Tim Carman Thursday, November 7, 2024
Masters of Horror and Magic
The German folklorists who helped build a nation
By Anne Matthews Friday, November 1, 2024
For Want of Touch
The astonishing breadth of our passions
By Diana Goetsch Thursday, September 26, 2024
Imperiled Planet
The ecological havoc we’ve wrought
By Priscilla Long Tuesday, September 3, 2024
The Burning Earth: A Historyby Sunil Amrith
