Paranoia Strikes Deep

What are we hiding from in our policed and gated communities?

Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy by Elaine Tyler May

A Palate for the Finer Things

Pondering a father’s thirst for respectability

The Wine Lover’s Daughter: A Memoir by Anne Fadiman

A Poet of Glamour and Chaos

Lady Lazarus rises again

The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940­–1956 edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil

Triumph of the Underdog

A new biography offers a sympathetic portrait of Lincoln’s greatest general

Grant by Ron Chernow

Wave of Anguish

Could disobedience have saved a group of Japanese students?

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry

Metropolis Rising

How the Big Apple took its place among the world’s great cities

Greater Gotham: A History of New York City From 1898 to 1919 by Mike Wallace

Antiquarian Dreams

Sometimes it’s okay to judge history by its cover

Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World by Christopher de Hamel

Running With the Pack

On one of the most successful ecological experiments of all time

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee

Feast of Eden

A look at humanity’s most famous star-crossed couple

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt

The Doctor’s Discontents

A harshly critical new biography of the father of psychotherapy

Freud: The Making of an Illusion by Frederick Crews

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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