Air Show

What the rise of an NBA superstar tells us about ourselves

Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan by Johnny Smith

All Dolled Up

How American Girl transformed the doll world—and why millennials love it so

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

Chief Misunderstanding

A speculative, sputtering study of leadership

Our Energetic World

Life is not an accident but an inevitable result of physical laws

The Co-Creation: How Earth Made Life and Life Made EarthBy Olivia Judson

Finding Marty

Zooming in on a storied director

Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese’s Life in FilmBy Mark Binelli

Dramatic Paws

On the trail of the elusive big cat of the Himalaya

The Ghost of the Mountains: Unraveling the Secrets of the Snow LeopardBy Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi

Shooting for the Camera

A portrait of the 20th century’s most infamous assassin

Translating the Past

Modern wit meets age-old wisdom

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient LiteratureBy Emily Wilson

Sound Barrier

How Marian Anderson made and managed history

Voice of a Century: The Life and Artistry of Marian AndersonBy Anthony Tommasini

Unfriendly Exchange

The tale of a nuclear war that almost was

The Six Minute War: Reagan, Russia, and the Race to Automate ArmageddonBy Michael Dobbs

Knot in my Back Yard

Not all non-native plants and animals need to be eradicated

Undesirable: Invasive Species, Humans, and Where We All BelongBy Amy Crawford

Hidden Truths

A new portrait of one of the 20th century’s most controversial philosophers

Hannah Arendt: A Life of the MindBy Thomas Meyer (tr. Shelley Frisch)

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