Numbers Game

A novelist’s indictment of how we account for our history

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

Born to Be Wild

One founding family’s centuries-long journey

American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation by John Kaag

Uncontacted

Indigenous civilizations thrived long before Europeans showed up

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal

Acting Out

One tortuous journey from stage to screen

Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Philip Gefter

Hometown Heroes

What if the goal is not to make it out of the neighborhood?

There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

Thought Experimenter

Will AI really make our world better?

The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots by Daniela Rus and Gregory Mone

Invisible Ink

Giving center page to an era’s forgotten writers

Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff

Chain Gang

The personalities behind one of Rome’s greatest treasures

Saving Michelangelo’s Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution by Wayne Kalayjian

The Jazz Singer

A new biography of an American legend

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year by Paul Alexander

Our Pets, Our Plates

In defense of the furred and the hoofed

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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