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 Renaissance by Ramie Targoff
Strength and Conditioning
Whether teaching history in the segregated South or winning Super Bowls as an NFL coach, Johnny Parker has encouraged his charges to strive for a certain kind of greatness
By Steve Yarbrough Friday, March 15, 2024
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 Revolution by Wayne Kalayjian
Tales From an Attic
Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives
By Sierra Bellows Monday, March 4, 2024
The Jazz Singer
A new biography of an American legend
By Farah Jasmine Griffin Monday, March 4, 2024
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year by Paul Alexander
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
Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
Shades of grief in the verse of Catherine Barnett
By Langdon Hammer Monday, March 4, 2024
Sins of the Fathers and Mothers
On war, settlement, and collective responsibility
By Lydia Moland Monday, March 4, 2024
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
Under a Spell Everlasting
Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war
By Samantha Rose Hill Monday, December 2, 2024
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
The Fair Fields
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil
By Rosanna Warren Monday, December 2, 2024
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
In the Mushroom
True foraging isn’t the domain of the weekend warrior; it’s serious, serious business
By Michael Autrey Monday, December 2, 2024
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, December 2, 2024
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut
The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend
How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths