“I Figured What the Hell”

A pugnacious reporter looks back on his legendary career

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour Hersh

Split Decisions

A renowned neuroscientist examines human experience

The Consciousness Instinct by Michael S. Gazzaniga

Idle Hands Are the Dreamer’s Tools

Why lolling about is a worthwhile pursuit

Shadow Warriors

After 9/11, what happened when the gloves came off?

Directorate S by Steve Coll

Where the Sun Never Set

A new, multilayered history of the British Empire

Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906 by David Cannadine

Literary Life on the Rocks

A writer’s own ordeal highlights the banal sameness of addiction

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison

A Planet in Peril

Can humanity engineer its way out of trouble?

The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann

A Window on Europe

How a tsar turned a fetid bog into an imperial capital

St. Petersburg: Madness, Murder, and Art on the Banks of the Neva by Jonathan Miles

A Fallen Angel of Mercy

Did her good works expiate the sins of her dark past?

In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement by John Heminway

Foes of Judgment

Numbers don’t always reveal the true nature of things

The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller

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

Imperiled Planet

The ecological havoc we’ve wrought

The Burning Earth: A Historyby Sunil Amrith

Ground Truth

A story of dirt, dollars, and death

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippiby Wright Thompson

Insisting on the Positive

A popular historian’s philosophical musings

On Freedomby Timothy Snyder

A Stranger in the Seven Hills

A refugee’s experience in the Eternal City

Roman Year: A Memoirby André Aciman

Mortal Coils

We aren’t alone in facing the inevitable

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Deathby Susana Monsó

Silent Partner

The union that may have made possible a writer’s late flourishing

A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevensonby Camille Peri

Schmaltz of Significance

How the first talkie treated the myth of the melting pot

Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singerby Richard Bernstein

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