A Danger to Ourselves

Tough on other species, too

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History By Elizabeth Kolbert

Whores de Combat

In search of adventure and engagement

Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War By Amanda Vaill

The Fabulist

A literary critic’s ugly deception

The Double Life of Paul De Man By Evelyn Barish

Ready to Be Free

The end of the peculiar institution

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation By David Brion Davis

An Irascible Artist

Separating man from myth

Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake By Daniel E. Sutherland

The Best Course

A beloved professor’s long shadow

Splendor of Heart: Walter Jackson Bate and the Teaching of Literature By Robert D. Richardson

The After-War

Some wounds don’t bleed

Thank You for Your Service By David Finkel

Dean of Satire

A writer’s many masks

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His Work By Leo Damrosch

Abolition Gone Wrong

Despite good intentions, some opponents of the Atlantic slave trade caused more harm

Ship of DeathBy Billy G. Smith / The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World By Greg Grandin

Ministry of Talent

JFK’s thousand days of crisis

Camelot’s Court By Robert Dallek

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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