Lives of the Ancients

Animating the Greeks and Romans

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations By Mary Beard

Two of a Kind

A postwar friendship

Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize By Sean B. Carroll

Truth or Management

The perils and rewards of studying abroad

Waiting to be Heard By Amanda Knox

The Bombmaker’s Burden

Winning the atomic race failed to bring him peace of mind

A Life Inside the Center By Ray Monk

Say Anything

The stories we tell ourselves

The Faraway Nearby By Rebecca Solnit

Bad Medicine

Psychiatry’s mistaken manual

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of PsychiatryBy Gary Greenberg / Saving Normal By Allen Frances

True North

Yankees and their slaves

For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England By Allegra di Bonaventura

Out of Africa

A writer says goodbye to all that

The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari By Paul Theroux

Science, Right and Wrong

The evolution of knowledge

Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in EverythingBy Philip Ball / Brilliant Blunders By Mario Livio

The World All Before Them

Setting off on footpaths both well-trod and forgotten

The Old Ways: A Journey on FootBy Robert Macfarlane / Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey By Simon Armitage

Heart of Semi-Darkness

A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors

Masters of Horror and Magic

The German folklorists who helped build a nation

For Want of Touch

The astonishing breadth of our passions

Imperiled Planet

The ecological havoc we’ve wrought

The Burning Earth: A Historyby Sunil Amrith

Ground Truth

A story of dirt, dollars, and death

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippiby Wright Thompson

Insisting on the Positive

A popular historian’s philosophical musings

On Freedomby Timothy Snyder

A Stranger in the Seven Hills

A refugee’s experience in the Eternal City

Roman Year: A Memoirby André Aciman

Mortal Coils

We aren’t alone in facing the inevitable

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Deathby Susana Monsó

Silent Partner

The union that may have made possible a writer’s late flourishing

A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevensonby Camille Peri

Schmaltz of Significance

How the first talkie treated the myth of the melting pot

Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singerby Richard Bernstein

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