The Moderate

Was Ike a great president?

Eisenhower in War and Peace By Jean Edward Smith

Founder of Our Freedoms

Rhode Island’s religious tolerance

Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul By John M. Barry

What Occurred at Linz: A Memoir of Forgetting

Hitler’s hometown has disowned its most infamous son, but a writer finds signs of him everywhere

Crazy Enough to Care

Peer counseling, long used in the humane treatment of the mentally ill, is getting new attention as a cost saver because of the Affordable Care Act

Say What?

How we talk American

Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume V Chief Editor Joan Houston Hall

Reading Fast and Slow

The speed at which our eyes travel across the printed page has serious (and surprising) implications for the way we make sense of words

Obsession

The playwright who never got over Marilyn Monroe

Arthur Miller: 1962–2005 By Christopher Bigsby

End Times

The Bible’s failed prophecy

Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation By Elaine Pagels

The Wine of Life

How as a young soldier in the Trentino, I passed my evenings in a lovely bookshop in a town near camp

Splitting Our Sides

A new biography of a comedy pioneer

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Liveby Susan Morrison

Mr. Olympia

When the ancient Greeks looked at human muscle, they saw something different than we do

In the Mushroom

True foraging isn’t the domain of the weekend warrior; it’s serious, serious business

Asteroid Hunters

The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

American Carthage
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Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present

Who’s to Say?
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A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesusby Elaine Pagels

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

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