What Is It Good For?
How the American military went from defense to offense
By James Webb Tuesday, March 1, 2005
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War By Andrew J. Bacevich
Battle of Anacostia
The bonus army and its unexpected legacy
By Robert S. McElvaine Tuesday, March 1, 2005
The Bonus Army: An American Epic By Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen
Thoreau’s Landscape Within
How he came to know nature, and through it came to know himself
By Kent C. Ryden Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Natural Life: Thoreau’s Worldly Transcendentalism By David M. Robinson
Rocket Men
A daughter explores the male-dominated universe of her father
By Michael Upchurch Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science By M. G. Lord
The Peculiar Intellectual
In the antebellum South, scholars made serious contributions to their fields, at least until they turned to defending slavery
By Richard E. Nicholls Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South By Michael O’Brien
What Einstein Knew
One year and five papers that changed physics forever
By Tony Rothman Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Einstein 1905: The Standard of GreatnessBy John S. Rigden / The Einstein Almanac By Alice Calaprice
One Bad Husband
What the “Bluebeard” story tells us about marriage
By Alison Lurie Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Secrets Behind the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives By Maria Tatar
The Unjolly Green Giant
How C. F. Seabrook became the Lear of the vegetable fields
By Anne Matthews Monday, June 9, 2025
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynastyby John Seabrook
A Portrait of the Scholar
The life of Ireland’s towering literary figure became a work of art in its own right
By Michael O'Donnell Monday, June 2, 2025
Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Makerby Zachary Leader
The Rascal of Pont-Aven
Reassessing a renowned painter’s troubling life
By Hannah Stamler Monday, June 2, 2025
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguinby Sue Prideaux
Sticking With It
A sobering chronicle of our toxic times
By Juli Berwald Monday, June 2, 2025
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicalsby Mariah Blake
Unbuilding the Mystery
What might Indigenous spiritual practices have in common?
By Ilan Stavans Monday, June 2, 2025
Shamanism: The Timeless Religionby Manvir Singh
A Blast of a Time
The scientific underpinnings of Armageddon
By Jeffrey Lewis Monday, June 2, 2025
Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Ageby Frank Close
Farmed Out
The uncertain future of the nation’s heartland
By Donald Worster Monday, June 2, 2025
Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairieby Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty
Streams of Consciousness
A writer’s intrepid exploration of troubled waters
By Anne Matthews Monday, June 2, 2025
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
An Enigma at the Center
The story of the American West in one photograph
By Alix Christie Thursday, May 22, 2025
The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American Westby Martha S. Sandweiss
Doing Nothing Is Everything
An areligious writer finds peace in a Benedictine monastery
By Costică Brădăţan Thursday, April 10, 2025
Aflame: Learning from Silenceby Pico Iyer
