Before the Rebellion
A colonial American artist’s portraits of an age
By Meryle Secrest Tuesday, September 6, 2016
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley By Jane Kamensky
Put a Bird on It
How did a beguiling South American hummingbird end up in the basement of a Pennsylvania museum?
By Erik Anderson Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The Old Urbanist
Jane Jacobs saw cities as places for people
By Edward Glaeser Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs By Robert Kanigel
Turbulence
Death can come at any time, from above or below, but life requires putting fear aside
By Brandon Lingle Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Healing the Masses
The evolution of care at the nation’s oldest public hospital
By T. M. Luhrmann Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital By David Oshinsky
Thine as Ever, P. T. Barnum
A scholar offers three utterly fictitious letters he wishes the famous showman had written
By A. H. Saxon Tuesday, September 6, 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
