The Guru of Athens

Can age-old philosophy lead the way to happiness?

Aristotle's Way by Edith Hall

Making Himself at Home

A German-born composer and his English oratorios

Handel in London by Jane Glover

The Portrait Master

Known for rendering others, a writer turns his attention inward

The Patch by John McPhee

The Death of Innocents

A look at the silent suffering of those caught in the crossfire

The Bodies in Person by Nick McDonell

The Loyal Opposition

A timely new biography of an avatar of courage and bipartisanship

The Improbable Wendell Willkie by David Levering Lewis

A Poet in Purgatory

An inside look at a literary marriage that ended in disaster

The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2: 1956–1963 edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil

The Runaway Question

How people fleeing bondage helped transform the nation

The War Before the War by Andrew Delbanco

The House for the Soul

Investigating the rhythmic beat at the center of our lives

Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart by Mimi Swartz

Lives of the Artists

The vistas and losses of two great English painters

Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime by Stanley Plumly

A Proximity to Greatness

How a reclusive writer’s work came to be published

After Emily: Two Remarkable Women, and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet by Julie Dobrow

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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