Pilgrim of Eternity

The loves and legends of Lord Byron

Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life By Edna O'Brien

The Peacock Problem

Does sexual selection really explain enough?

The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness By Joan Roughgarden

The Peacock Problem

What does evolution say about why we make art?

The Art Instinct By Denis Dutton

Founding Portraitists

The Painter’s Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art By Hugh Howard

Dark Mysteries

Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor By Brad Gooch

At Liberty to Divulge

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University By Kevin Roose

Circular Bread Line

The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread By Maria Balinska

Cal & Liz & Ted & Sylvia

The corresponding prose of midcentury poets

Letters of Ted Hughesselected and edited by Christopher Reid, Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A Passion for Architecture

Nuggets from a critical gold mine

On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change By Ada Louise Huxtable

Let Me Count the Ways

Are we getting more obsessive or more compulsive about diagnosing?

Obsession: A History By Lennard J. Davis

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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