Book Reviews

An Israeli-Palestinian Peace Encounter

Under raining bombs, is healing conceivable?

By Erik Gleibermann | Wednesday, April 15, 2026

How the West Won

A great Texas novelist whose message succumbed to myth

By Steven G. Kellman | Friday, April 10, 2026

Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry By David Streitfeld

Words, Words, Words

How artists turned the canon against congressional inquisitors

By Brooke Kroeger | Thursday, April 2, 2026

A Treacherous Secret Agent: How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare by Marjorie Garber

Lede-ing Ladies

How female foreign correspondents transformed journalism

By Anne Matthews | Monday, March 16, 2026

Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World By Julia Cooke

An American Prophet of the Natural World

Celebrating the magical mundane

By John Kaag | Thursday, March 5, 2026

The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams

Who Is Thinking?

The quest to discover the answer to an age-old question

By T. M. Luhrmann | Monday, March 2, 2026

A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness By Michael Pollan

The Great Decipherment

Decoding the story of a lost civilization

By Ilan Stavans | Monday, March 2, 2026

The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya By David Stuart

Think, Again

Reckoning with the elegance of physical laws and the wonders of being alive

By John Kaag | Monday, March 2, 2026

Traversal By Maria Popova

Family Trees

Threats to our woods are threats to us all

By Priscilla Long | Monday, March 2, 2026

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World By Suzanne Simard

Criminal Complexity

What inherited traits can—and can’t—tell us about violent behavior

By Jill Leovy | Monday, March 2, 2026

Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness By Kathryn Paige Harden