Too Much Information

When flawed algorithms meet naïve expectations

The Efficiency Paradox by Edward Tenner

Robben Island Days

A South African leader’s jailhouse correspondence during apartheid

The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela edited by Sahm Venter

Monstrous Achievement

Two hundred years on, a writer’s cautionary tale still captivates

In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson

A Life’s Work Gone to Seed

The lost cultivations of an often overlooked colonial scientist

American Eden by Victoria Johnson

Everything Was Radiant

A Soviet reactor’s meltdown and its far-reaching consequences

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy

“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

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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