Image Was Everything

A new biography of the seminal pop artist of the 20th century

Warhol by Blake Gopnik

Kellman: Stone and his wife, Janice in Hawaii, c. 1979.

Not Quite Forgotten

The unheralded success ofa fine American novelist

Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone by Madison Smartt Bell

Making Their Voices Heard

The story behind passage of the 19th Amendment

Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote by Ellen Carol DuBois

Allen: David Carr

Poet of the Newsroom

A journalist with the unteachable gift of making you read on

Final Draft: The Collected Work of David Carr edited by Jill Rooney Carr

Kean: Galileo on trail at the Inquisition

Heaven and the Heretic

A brilliant scientist whose life is a cautionary tale

Galileo and the Science Deniers by Mario Livio

Glamour and Violence

A group portrait of the brutal Belle Époque

The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes

Ralph Ellison

Visible Man

An intimate view of a great American writer

The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison edited by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner

History, Alive and Well

A writer’s tour of the Soviet world, 30 years after its collapse

Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe by Rory MacLean

A Biographer Looks Back

A noted practitioner reveals her tricks of the trade

Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me by Deirdre Bair

University of Virginia

A Founding Class

Two new studies of the man from Monticello

Thomas Jefferson’s Education by Alan Taylor Revolutionary Brothers by Tom Chaffin

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano

Who’s to Say?
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A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesusby Elaine Pagels

Chapters and Verse

Looking for the poet between the lines

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetryby Adam Plunkett

Once More, Without Feeling

Can a memoir be effective when it lacks any warmth?

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritanceby Joe Dunthorne

Electrons That Bind

The molecule at the center of everything

Carbon: The Book of Lifeby Paul Hawken

Food for Thought

A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats

How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Foodby Vaclav Smil

Splitting Our Sides

A new biography of a comedy pioneer

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Liveby Susan Morrison

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equationby Kenneth Turan

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apartby Nicholas Carr

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

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