Poised Between the Ancient and the New

Isaac B. Singer: A Life By Florence Noiville

What if Nature Had Been Thrifty?

The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny By Ivar Ekeland

Birthday Suit

Skin: A Natural History By Nina G. Jablonski

Environmentalism for Outsiders

The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism By Aaron Sachs

Peaceable Kingdom

The Medici Giraffe and Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power By Marina Belozerskaya

Domestic Insurrection

Rough Crossings: Britain, Slaves, and the American RevolutionBy Simon Schama / Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution By Joseph Glatthar and James Kirby Martin

Eclogues

Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer By Noel Perrin

The Mind-Brain Problem

Psychologist Jerome Kagan has always known that biology is only a partial solution

An Argument for Mind By Jerome Kagan

Worked Well with Others

Discovering the structure of DNA was not Francis Crick’s only important collaboration

Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code By Matt Ridley

Half-Brother to the World

The United States has been more like other nations than we like to think

A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History By Thomas Bender

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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