The Mind-Brain Problem
Psychologist Jerome Kagan has always known that biology is only a partial solution
By Jay Tolson Thursday, June 1, 2006
An Argument for Mind By Jerome Kagan
Worked Well with Others
Discovering the structure of DNA was not Francis Crick’s only important collaboration
By Priscilla Long Thursday, June 1, 2006
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code By Matt Ridley
Half-Brother to the World
The United States has been more like other nations than we like to think
By Eugen Weber Thursday, June 1, 2006
A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History By Thomas Bender
African Renaissance?
Finding hope on a continent where many people see only despair
By David Chanoff Thursday, June 1, 2006
New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance By Charlayne Hunter-Gault
In Search of a Great Modernist
Do Proust’s final days illuminate his novel?
By Susan Rubin Suleiman Thursday, June 1, 2006
Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris By Richard Davenport-Hines
Tiny Tomes
Literature in miniature has a 500-year history, but what’s the appeal of a volume too small to read?
By Judith Pascoe Thursday, June 1, 2006
Verde
Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew
By Jesse Lee Kercheval Thursday, December 12, 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
