Darkness Illuminated

A horror writer whose real demons were off the page

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life By Ruth Franklin

Territories of Conquest

A new history of the bloodletting that opened the frontier

The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West By Peter Cozzens

Before the Rebellion

A colonial American artist’s portraits of an age

A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley By Jane Kamensky

The Old Urbanist

Jane Jacobs saw cities as places for people

Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs By Robert Kanigel

Healing the Masses

The evolution of care at the nation’s oldest public hospital

Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital By David Oshinsky

A Rare Intelligence

A review of a thrilling life

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life By John le Carré

Manifest Poverty

Poor southern whites have long been a people without a country

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America By Nancy Isenberg

Courting All Voters

The judicial effects of American civic engagement

Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law By David Cole

With Noses Held High

Personal aspiration need not always lead to snobbery

Pretentiousness: Why It Matters By Dan Fox

Annals of Human Oddity

Casting an eye on “freaks” with sensitivity and compassion

Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer By Arthur Lubow

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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