Death in Drohobych

A new biography of a Polish literary master

Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History by Benjamin Balint

Our Pragmatic Present

There is no prescribed meaning or purpose to our lives—and that’s okay

Mind in Nature: John Dewey, Cognitive Science, and a Naturalistic Philosophy for Living by Mark Johnson and Jay Schulkin

From Mandate to Nation State

How a failed Arab rebellion ensured Israel’s survival

Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by Oren Kessler

Doors of Perception

The often unreliable ways we interpret reality

Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses by Ashley Ward

Culture Shock

The hidden history of reverse colonization

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock

Life at the Bottom

It’s not just the rich who victimize the poor

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

The Center Cannot Hold

A kaleidoscopic journey through a divided country

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet

Tales of Memory and Forgetting

What happens when we cease to be who we were?

Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain by Dasha Kiper by Dasha Kiper

Errant Thought

Can we keep the Enlightenment from dimming?

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell

More Than Mere Words

The strange allure of the printed page

Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers

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

Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

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

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

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

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

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