Photo of Oliver Sacks

Head Cases

Field notes on a beautiful friendship

And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler

Etching of 1857 Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester

The Great Convergence

How continental art and literature went global

The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes

Black and white photo of Susan Sontag

Image Is Not Everything

A definitive portrait of a celebrated American intellectual

Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser

Painting of Saint Augustine

Spirits in the Material World

Two new books consider the past and present of Christendom

A Pilgrimage to Eternity by Timothy Egan Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland

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He Contained Multitudes

Exploring the psychology of an iconoclastic architect

Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson

Illustration of the body

How We Work

An anatomical tour of what it means to be human

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

Downsized Living

Escaping the city, a writer finds contentment in a small town

If You Lived Here You’d Be Home by Now by Christopher Ingraham

Sunset over Gettysburg battlefield

Rising Again

A writer finds much that hasn’t changed in the former Confederacy

Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz

Red rock formations in the desert are interspersed with cacti and brush

Bonanza of Greed

Myths and lies will, if we let them, spell the end of the public domain

This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West by Christopher Ketcham

Two women stand side-by-side in front of a stand of trees. The woman on the left is dressed in a light-colored coat., while the one on the right wears black.

Southern Secrets

Three very different women haunted by the past

Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

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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