It’s Complicated

Unraveling the mystery of why people act as they do

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky

Waking From the Dream

Most Americans assume society is more egalitarian than it is

The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith Payne

Not by Taste Alone

The flavor of food is produced by all of the senses

Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating by Charles Spence

England, My England

The poet whose bucolic lyrics defined a generation

Housman Country: Into the Heart of England by Peter Parker

Back From Oblivion

A writer who refused to live in a world robbed of meaning

The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence by John T. Irwin

Broken Bodies, Broken Forms

What relation does art bear to suffering? 

Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles

“I Will Die a Russian”

A marriage of convenience that yielded an intelligence bonanza

Spies in the Family by Eva Dillon

Orator-in-Chief

President Obama’s public remarks revealed his unshakable faith in the unity of the American people

We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama edited by E.J. Dionne Jr. and Joy-Ann Reid

More Than Human

The dawn of a technologically enhanced super-species is upon us

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

Robocops and Robbers

Criminal justice in the age of digital spying and surveillance

Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman

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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