Touché-ing the Void
How can we live only to die?
By John Kaag Monday, November 22, 2021
The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning by Paul Bloom
Visible Man
A writer whose early speculative fiction made him famous
By Charles Trueheart Monday, November 15, 2021
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
Her Pages Caught Fire
A new biography of a ferociously talented and determined writer
By Rosanna Warren Thursday, November 11, 2021
A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis
Lost in the Garden
One essayist’s thorny tribute to another
By Anne Matthews Monday, November 8, 2021
Remaking a Killing
How a brutal double homicide in 19th-century France enflamed the imagination of a great Russian novelist
By David Stromberg Monday, November 1, 2021
<em>The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece</em> by Kevin Birmingham
Poet of the Extreme
A noted novelist considers the life of an American master
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, October 18, 2021
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster
Holding the Reigns
Four queens condemned to live in interesting times
By Ingrid Rowland Monday, October 4, 2021
When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe by Maureen Quilligan
Ancestral Present
The fruits of a decades-long inquiry into contemporary Indian culture
By Shirley Streshinsky Monday, September 20, 2021
<em>Deep Hanging Out: Wanderings and Wonderment in Native California </em> by Malcolm Margolin
Life in the Shadows
The trauma and violence that prop up our economy
By Nancy Isenberg Thursday, September 2, 2021
Lessons in Abstraction
The strange life of Europe’s most overlooked modernist
By Andrea Scrima Monday, August 30, 2021
Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser by Susan Bernofsky
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
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
Ideology as Anatomy
How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives
By Sierra Bellows Monday, December 2, 2024
Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Partsby Helen King
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, December 2, 2024
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut
The Creator’s Code
Are humans alone in their ability to make art?
By Evelyn McDonnell Monday, December 2, 2024
The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AIby David Hajdu
Barbarity at the Bataclan
A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light
By Charles Trueheart Monday, December 2, 2024
V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the Frenchby John Lambert
Heart of Semi-Darkness
A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors
By Tim Carman Thursday, November 7, 2024
Masters of Horror and Magic
The German folklorists who helped build a nation
By Anne Matthews Friday, November 1, 2024
For Want of Touch
The astonishing breadth of our passions
By Diana Goetsch Thursday, September 26, 2024
