A Shattered Sisterhood

Her Pages Caught Fire

A new biography of a ferociously talented and determined writer

A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis

Dark White

The caste status of Arabs in the United States and Germany

It’s Come to This

St. Paul: 2020

Creative Destruction

The spiritual quest of the alchemist

A Prophet and a President

Why Black biography matters

Poet of the Extreme

A noted novelist considers the life of an American master

Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster

Holding the Reigns

Four queens condemned to live in interesting times

When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe by Maureen Quilligan

Whatever Happened to Frankie King?

A tale of Brooklyn, basketball, brothers, and madness

At the Corner of Byron and Shelley

Poetry and philhellenism at the Greek bicentennial

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?

Chapters and Verse

Looking for the poet between the lines

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetryby Adam Plunkett

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

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