Myths of Memory

Our ability to recall is not an undiluted gift

A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past by Lewis Hyde

A Blueprint for a Safer, Saner Society

How to reduce crime and warehousing in America’s prisons

Shrinking Success

Psychopharmacology has not lived up to its early promise

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington

Continental Drift

Westward expansion delayed a needed national reckoning

The End of The Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin

The Writer at Ground Zero

The chronicler of the first horror of the nuclear age

Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of <em>Hiroshima</em> by Jeremy Treglown

How the South Rose Again

Defeated in war, the Confederate states merely changed tactics

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Freedom of Thought

The philosophical currents that shaped our nation

The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Prophets of the Avant-Garde

How two power couples changed the world of art

Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury by Carolyn Burke

His Life Spoke Volumes

The man behind the great Enlightenment encyclopedia

Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran

Where the Sun Finally Set

A new look at the island empire’s prize possession

The British in India by David Gilmour

Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel

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

Ideology as Anatomy

How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Partsby Helen King

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Creator’s Code

Are humans alone in their ability to make art?

The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AIby David Hajdu

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apartby Nicholas Carr

Barbarity at the Bataclan

A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light

V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the Frenchby John Lambert

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

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