Controlled Experiments
The Soviet Union’s ideological and inefficient view of science
By Aileen M. Kelly Monday, December 5, 2016
Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905–1953 By Simon Ings
Homebodies
A life spent mainly in the company of cats has meant relishing the comforts of domesticity and solitude
By Kyoko Mori Monday, December 5, 2016
Gratitude for a Femme Fatale
An excerpt from Peter Carlson’s memoir-in-progress
By Peter Carlson Monday, December 5, 2016
The Lightness of Errol Flynn
In praise of the irresistible swashbuckler
By Brian Doyle Monday, December 5, 2016
Too Much Poetic License
An attempt to identify the object of the Bard’s affections
By Andrew Motion Monday, December 5, 2016
Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare’s Sonnets By Elaine Scarry
Tales From Motor City
Left for dead yet pulsing with life again, Detroit survives as a place of inconsistency and contradiction
By Laura Bernstein-Machlay Monday, December 5, 2016
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, January 13, 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut
The Writer in the Family
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero
By Jonathan Liebson Wednesday, January 8, 2025
The Weight of a Stone
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology
By Megan Craig Thursday, January 2, 2025
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
