Pilgrim of Eternity
The loves and legends of Lord Byron
By William Giraldi Monday, June 1, 2009
Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life By Edna O'Brien
The Peacock Problem
Does sexual selection really explain enough?
By Priscilla Long Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness By Joan Roughgarden
The Peacock Problem
What does evolution say about why we make art?
By Alexander Nehamas Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Art Instinct By Denis Dutton
Founding Portraitists
By Fergus M. Bordewich Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Painter’s Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art By Hugh Howard
Dark Mysteries
By Angeline Goreau Sunday, March 1, 2009
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor By Brad Gooch
At Liberty to Divulge
By John Rolfe Gardiner Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University By Kevin Roose
Circular Bread Line
By Sandra M. Gilbert Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread By Maria Balinska
Cal & Liz & Ted & Sylvia
The corresponding prose of midcentury poets
By Sudip Bose Monday, December 1, 2008
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
By Stanley Abercrombie Monday, December 1, 2008
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?
By Richard Restak Monday, December 1, 2008
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?
By Scott Stossel Thursday, March 6, 2025
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano
Who’s to Say? 
A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity
By Sarah Ruden Monday, March 3, 2025
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesusby Elaine Pagels
Chapters and Verse
Looking for the poet between the lines
By Jay Parini Monday, March 3, 2025
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?
By Casey Schwartz Monday, March 3, 2025
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritanceby Joe Dunthorne
Electrons That Bind
The molecule at the center of everything
By Priscilla Long Monday, March 3, 2025
Carbon: The Book of Lifeby Paul Hawken
Food for Thought
A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats
By Anne Matthews Monday, March 3, 2025
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Foodby Vaclav Smil
Splitting Our Sides
A new biography of a comedy pioneer
By Stephen Macone Monday, March 3, 2025
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
By Noah Isenberg Thursday, February 13, 2025
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equationby Kenneth Turan
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Thursday, January 23, 2025
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine
