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 Christophe by 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 Age by 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 Union by 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
Barbarian Virtues
When Americans first yearned to transform themselves and save the world
By Patricia O’Toole Monday, June 1, 2009
Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 By Jackson Lears
Jungle Bungle
As a rubber baron, Henry Ford was no Firestone
By Wayne Curtis Monday, June 1, 2009
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City By Greg Grandin
Gross Anatomy
A physician’s inside stories about the human body
By Richard McCann Monday, June 1, 2009
Carrying the Heart: Exploring the Worlds Within Us By F. González-Crussi
The Lost Village
A Palestinian poet remembers the people and places he has lived without
By Nathalie Handal Monday, June 1, 2009
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century By Adina Hoffman
Pilgrim of Eternity
The loves and legends of Lord Byron
By William Giraldi Monday, June 1, 2009
Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life By Edna O'Brien
Remembering John Updike
A critic and his decades-long correspondence with one of America’s best “freelance writers”
By William H. Pritchard Monday, June 1, 2009
The Terminator Comes to Wall Street
How computer modeling worsened the financial crisis and what we ought to do about it
By Joseph Fuller Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Peacock Problem
Does sexual selection really explain enough?
By Priscilla Long Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness By Joan Roughgarden
