A Taste for Higher Math
The numbers that count
By Natalie Angier Wednesday, March 4, 2015
How to Bake π: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics By Eugenia Cheng
Two Dutch Visionaries
How the optical revolution revealed worlds large and small
By Graeme Wood Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing By Laura J. Snyder
“You Cannot Refine It”
From victory to annihilation, the evolving nature of combat
By John Nagl Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Sherman’s Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War By Matthew Carr
Proust Imperfect
The Englishman who interpreted France’s greatest novel
By Anka Muhlstein Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator By Jean Findlay
Meeting the Test of Time
Why some wordsmiths stay and others fade away
By Stanley Plumly Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame By H. J. Jackson
Persecution Complex
A young Bolshevik revolutionary’s unlikely and bloody rise to power
By Gary Saul Morson Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 By Stephen Kotkin
The Crisis Up Close
Wandering our warming world
By Natalie Angier Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made By Gaia Vince
Cruel Spring
A dark time in the city of light
By Charles Trueheart Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune By John Merriman
To Flee or Not to Flee
The stigma of failed courage
By Jennifer Michael Hecht Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Cowardice: A Brief History By Chris Walsh
Champion of Modernism
A literary life on the edge
By John Tytell Wednesday, December 10, 2014
“Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions By Ian S. MacNiven
Who Would I Be Off My Meds
Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?
By Scott Stossel Thursday, March 6, 2025
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano
Who’s to Say? 
A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity
By Sarah Ruden Monday, March 3, 2025
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesusby Elaine Pagels
Chapters and Verse
Looking for the poet between the lines
By Jay Parini Monday, March 3, 2025
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?
By Casey Schwartz Monday, March 3, 2025
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritanceby Joe Dunthorne
Electrons That Bind
The molecule at the center of everything
By Priscilla Long Monday, March 3, 2025
Carbon: The Book of Lifeby Paul Hawken
Food for Thought
A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats
By Anne Matthews Monday, March 3, 2025
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Foodby Vaclav Smil
Splitting Our Sides
A new biography of a comedy pioneer
By Stephen Macone Monday, March 3, 2025
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
By Noah Isenberg Thursday, February 13, 2025
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equationby Kenneth Turan
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Thursday, January 23, 2025
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine
