A Taste for Higher Math

The numbers that count

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

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

Sherman’s Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War By Matthew Carr

Proust Imperfect

The Englishman who interpreted France’s greatest novel

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

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

Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 By Stephen Kotkin

The Crisis Up Close

Wandering our warming world

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

Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune By John Merriman

To Flee or Not to Flee

The stigma of failed courage

Cowardice: A Brief History By Chris Walsh

Champion of Modernism

A literary life on the edge

“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?

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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