A Name Not Writ in Water
Revisiting an immortal 19th-century English poet
By A. E. Stallings Monday, April 25, 2022
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller
Arctic Fantasies
The region has long been an object of dreams, desire, and misunderstanding
By Neil Shea Monday, April 11, 2022
Extreme North: A Cultural History by Bernd Brunne
Gene Therapy
A writer’s search for herself in the branches of her family tree
By Nancy Isenberg Monday, March 28, 2022
Making the List
Finding the right page required centuries of experiment
By Charles Trueheart Monday, March 21, 2022
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan
From Cold War to Y2K
Looking back on a decade that was often dumb but never dull
By Malcolm Jones Monday, March 14, 2022
The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
Found in Translation
An Iranian emigrant finds solace in Western literature
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, March 7, 2022
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi
Wielders of the Knife
How doctors learned to keep patients alive on the operating table
By Perri Klass Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery by Ira Rutkow
Surviving the Ebb and Flow
The curious creatures that inhabit the ocean’s edge
By Miranda Weiss Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson
Dollars Versus Degrees
Are business interests alone to blame for global warming?
By Donald Worster Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden
Where I End and We Begin
A writer reimagines her life by blending it with others
By Sally Greene Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Bending Toward Justice
Rejecting the “race riot” myth means facing the ugly truth
By Sally Greene Thursday, July 16, 2026
They Stole a City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live With Its Legacyby Lauren Collins
Verse From the Abyss
How a Jewish poet rebuilt his mother tongue in the wake of the Holocaust
By Piotr Florczyk Thursday, July 9, 2026
Paul Celan: A Lifeby Anna Arno, translated by Soren Gauger
Where Are We?
Finding our bearings has never been so risky
By Peter Turchi Monday, June 29, 2026
Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern WorldBy Katherine Dunn
Blood—and Beauty—at the Root
Fifty years ago, Alex Haley’s landmark novel changed the way many Americans thought about race
By Brandon Tensley Monday, June 15, 2026
Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the Worldby Lucas L. Johnson II
In Defense of Difficult Reading
The tomes of the past cultivate the lost art of sustained attention
By Todd Shy Friday, June 5, 2026
What’s So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) Naomi Kanakia
Inside Man
A young reporter’s devastating exposé of the amoral elite
By Anne Matthews Monday, June 1, 2026
How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford UniversityBy Theo Baker
Things Fall Apart
A meditation on entropy, obsolescence, and death
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, June 1, 2026
How We Disappear: A Personal History of InformationBy Thomas S. Mullaney
Into the Wilds
The tangled terrain of untrammeled lands
By Miranda Weiss Monday, June 1, 2026
The Savage Landscape: How We Made the WildernessBy Cal Flyn
The Painter Time Forgot
An overdue reckoning of an artist’s volcanic genius
By Rebecca Bedell Monday, June 1, 2026
Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the WorldBy Victoria Johnson
Canonical Contempt
Even in the 18th century, Edward Gibbon’s misogyny set him apart
By Michael O'Donnell Monday, June 1, 2026
The Conversions of Edward Gibbon: A Modern BiographyBy Martha Saxton
