A Model Marriage

An intimate portrait of a couple who helped forge a nation

The Washingtons By Flora Fraser

Son of Gonzo

Living in the aftermath of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll

Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson By Juan F. Thompson

Riddles for the Afterlife

Decoding the hieroglyphs that accompanied the dead pharaohs

The Dawning Moon of the Mind: Unlocking the Pyramid Texts By Susan Brind Morrow

Hail to the Chiefs

Leaders of the last century

The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton By William E. Leuchtenburg

Taken to the Leader

Why did Pyongyang kidnap several dozen Japanese?

The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea’s Abduction Project By Robert S. Boynton

Hot Rocks

A scientist’s love of lava

The Last Volcano: A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature’s Most Magnificent Fury By John Dvorak

Speaking in Tongues

The ancient, tangled roots of modern language

Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty LanguagesBy Gaston Dorren / Written in Stone: A Journey through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language By Christopher Stevens

A Lifetime Spent Bearing Witness

The literary giant who rose from the ashes of a people

The Complete Works of Primo Levi Edited by Ann Goldstein

Cosmic Art

An inquiry into the scientific significance of elegance

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design By Frank Wilczek

Anyone Home?

The centuries-long debate over what resides between our ears

Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind By George Makari

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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