Elizabeth Bishop and Louise Crane

Questions of Inspiration

Should we try to see the poet in her poetry?

Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop by Thomas Travisano

Lydia Davis

The Barber of Language

A new collection from a celebrated prose stylist

Essays One by Lydia Davis

Van Cliburn performing

Nationalist Anthems

Remembering a time when composers mattered more

Dangerous Melodies by Jonathan Rosenberg

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Pursuing the White Whale

A briny exploration of Melville’s greatest work

Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick by Richard J. King

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Too Long Ignored

An engaging look at the forces that shaped history south of the border

Silver, Sword & Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story by Marie Arana

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

Photo of Frank Lloyd Wright

He Contained Multitudes

Exploring the psychology of an iconoclastic architect

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

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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