Splitting Our Sides
A new biography of a comedy pioneer
By Stephen Macone Thursday, April 3, 2025
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison
Song for the Earth
Finding a message for today in the music of Gustav Mahler
By Joseph Horowitz Monday, March 31, 2025
Transcending the Glass Ceiling
Five women who made important contributions to 19th-century American philosophy finally get their due
By Lydia Moland Thursday, March 27, 2025
Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism by Randall Fuller
Who Would I Be Off My Meds
Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?
By Scott Stossel Thursday, March 6, 2025
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Laura Delano
Who’s to Say? 
A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity
By Sarah Ruden Monday, March 3, 2025
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels
Chapters and Verse
Looking for the poet between the lines
By Jay Parini Monday, March 3, 2025
Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry by Adam Plunkett
Once More, Without Feeling
Can a memoir be effective when it lacks any warmth?
By Casey Schwartz Monday, March 3, 2025
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne
Electrons That Bind
The molecule at the center of everything
By Priscilla Long Monday, March 3, 2025
Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken
Food for Thought
A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats
By Anne Matthews Monday, March 3, 2025
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food by Vaclav Smil
In the Lions’ Studio
A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
By Noah Isenberg Thursday, February 13, 2025
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation by Kenneth Turan
The Rescuer
In search of the Underground Railroad’s legendary conductor
By Danielle Amir Jackson Monday, June 3, 2024
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free Peopleby Tiya Miles
Facing the Facts
An antiquated take on antiquity
By Sarah Ruden Monday, June 3, 2024
The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient Worldby Daisy Dunn
Numbers Game
A novelist’s indictment of how we account for our history
By Nell Pierce Monday, June 3, 2024
Question 7by Richard Flanagan
Born to Be Wild
One founding family’s centuries-long journey
By Mary Beth Norton Monday, June 3, 2024
American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nationby John Kaag
Uncontacted
Indigenous civilizations thrived long before Europeans showed up
By Andrew Graybill Monday, June 3, 2024
Native Nations: A Millennium in North Americaby Kathleen DuVal
Acting Out
One tortuous journey from stage to screen
By Rachel Shteir Monday, May 27, 2024
Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?by Philip Gefter
Hometown Heroes
What if the goal is not to make it out of the neighborhood?
By Eric Wills Monday, April 29, 2024
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascensionby Hanif Abdurraqib
Thought Experimenter
Will AI really make our world better?
By Sam Kean Monday, April 1, 2024
The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robotsby Daniela Rus and Gregory Mone
Invisible Ink
Giving center page to an era’s forgotten writers
By Teri Ellen Cross Davis Thursday, March 21, 2024
Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissanceby Ramie Targoff
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 Revolutionby Wayne Kalayjian
