Thought Experimenters

Making sense of a broken world

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times by Wolfram Eilenberger

The Late Bloomer

Reconstructing a private poet’s life

Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt by Willard Spiegelman

Naturalists Unknown

Lives marked by discovery and erasure

Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science by Catherine McNeur

Down and Out

A woman excised from her eminent husband’s story

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder

It’s All Greek to Her

The woman who brought mythology to the masses

American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton by Victoria Houseman

Connect or Die

The high cost of going it alone

This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity by Richard Deming

To Get to the Other Side

Roads and the future of life on Earth

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb

Allergen Alert

When the back-to-school shopping list includes an EpiPen

Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in Changing World by Theresa MacPhail

Myth, Mystery, and Contradiction

A journey through a region in search of itself

Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski

Sea Changes

Navigating the currents of midlife—and redefining home along the way

Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years by Heidi Julavits

How the West Won

A great Texas novelist whose message succumbed to myth

Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtryBy David Streitfeld

Words, Words, Words

How artists turned the canon against congressional inquisitors

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

Lede-ing Ladies

How female foreign correspondents transformed journalism

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

An American Prophet of the Natural World

Celebrating the magical mundane

The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinaryby Terry Tempest Williams

Who Is Thinking?

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

A World Appears: A Journey into ConsciousnessBy Michael Pollan

The Great Decipherment

Decoding the story of a lost civilization

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

Think, Again

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

TraversalBy Maria Popova

Family Trees

Threats to our woods are threats to us all

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

Criminal Complexity

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

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

The Minotaur’s Muses

The romantic cruelty of a brilliant artist

Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso's Lifeby Sue Roe

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