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

Of Faith and Tragedy

A scholar of early Christianity on how her work informed her life

Why Religion? by Elaine Pagels

Enigma From the East

A Soviet émigré’s never-ending battle to be understood

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?

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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