Shrinking Success
Psychopharmacology has not lived up to its early promise
By Scott Stossel Monday, March 4, 2019
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington
Continental Drift
Westward expansion delayed a needed national reckoning
By Jill Leovy Monday, March 4, 2019
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
By Phyllis Rose Monday, March 4, 2019
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
By Louis P. Masur Monday, March 4, 2019
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
By John Kaag Monday, March 4, 2019
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
By Meryle Secrest Monday, March 4, 2019
Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury by Carolyn Burke
His Life Spoke Volumes
The man behind the great Enlightenment encyclopedia
By Tom Chaffin Monday, March 4, 2019
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
By Nisid Hajari Monday, December 3, 2018
The British in India by David Gilmour
Of Faith and Tragedy
A scholar of early Christianity on how her work informed her life
By B. D. McClay Monday, December 3, 2018
Why Religion? by Elaine Pagels
Enigma From the East
A Soviet émigré’s never-ending battle to be understood
By Gary Saul Morson Monday, December 3, 2018
Between Two Millstones by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; translated by Peter Constantine
Who Would I Be Off My Meds
Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?
By Scott Stossel Thursday, March 6, 2025
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano
Who’s to Say? 
A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity
By Sarah Ruden Monday, March 3, 2025
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesusby Elaine Pagels
Chapters and Verse
Looking for the poet between the lines
By Jay Parini Monday, March 3, 2025
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?
By Casey Schwartz Monday, March 3, 2025
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritanceby Joe Dunthorne
Electrons That Bind
The molecule at the center of everything
By Priscilla Long Monday, March 3, 2025
Carbon: The Book of Lifeby Paul Hawken
Food for Thought
A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats
By Anne Matthews Monday, March 3, 2025
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Foodby Vaclav Smil
Splitting Our Sides
A new biography of a comedy pioneer
By Stephen Macone Monday, March 3, 2025
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
By Noah Isenberg Thursday, February 13, 2025
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equationby Kenneth Turan
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Thursday, January 23, 2025
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine
