Redefining Women’s Work

The relief of suffering was one means to a great end

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women—and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura

Market Morality

The divine underpinnings of Western prosperity

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by Benjamin M. Friedman

Thought Experiment

Exploring the evolutionary origins of our brains

Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Satirist to the Galaxy

The war behind a writer’s words

Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941–1945 edited by Edith Vonnegut

Indefensible Torture, Unfree Speech

What Censorship Kept America from Learning about the Futility of “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques”

The Black Banners Declassified: How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11  by Ali Soufan with Daniel Freedman

Black America’s Tough-Minded Truth Teller

How an autobiography shaped the image of a civil rights icon

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

A Pioneering Appetite

The story of America’s first culinary celebrity

The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard John Birdsall

Verifiable Truths

The thinkers who tried to strip metaphysics from philosophy

The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle David Edmonds

Saved By Accident

Only dumb luck has stood in the way of atomic annihilation

Gambling With Armageddon by Martin J. Sherwin

Sonic Geographer

The composer whose music bears witness to a planet in peril

Heart of Semi-Darkness

A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors

Masters of Horror and Magic

The German folklorists who helped build a nation

For Want of Touch

The astonishing breadth of our passions

Imperiled Planet

The ecological havoc we’ve wrought

The Burning Earth: A Historyby Sunil Amrith

Ground Truth

A story of dirt, dollars, and death

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippiby Wright Thompson

Insisting on the Positive

A popular historian’s philosophical musings

On Freedomby Timothy Snyder

A Stranger in the Seven Hills

A refugee’s experience in the Eternal City

Roman Year: A Memoirby André Aciman

Mortal Coils

We aren’t alone in facing the inevitable

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Deathby Susana Monsó

Silent Partner

The union that may have made possible a writer’s late flourishing

A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevensonby Camille Peri

Schmaltz of Significance

How the first talkie treated the myth of the melting pot

Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singerby Richard Bernstein

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