Let Me Count the Ways

Are we getting more obsessive or more compulsive about diagnosing?

Obsession: A History By Lennard J. Davis

Lucid Madness

A massacre of Apache women and children, and the difficulties of telling their story

Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History By Karl Jacoby

Of Time and the Camera

An art critic and historian turns his attention to contemporary photography

Why Photography Matters Now as Art as Never Before By Michael Fried

Immortality Gained

John Milton was not only a great poet, but also a great defender of liberty

Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot By Anna Beer

Copyright Wrongs

When technology makes an illegal act easy, should the law make that act legal?

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy By Lawrence Lessig

How Special a Relationship?

Whether T.R. needed Edward VII to establish the United States as a world power

The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners By David Fromkin

Potted History

Learning more about slave life in South Carolina from a legendary potter-poet

Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave By Leonard Todd

Shaking Habit’s House

Critic James Wood preaches a return to the realism of Flaubert

How Fiction Works By James Wood, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Preparation of a Lifetime

Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again By Roger H. Martin

Over There

A pugnacious public intellectual looks to Europe for his ideal

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century By Tony Judt

Chief Misunderstanding

A speculative, sputtering study of leadership

Our Energetic World

Life is not an accident but an inevitable result of physical laws

The Co-Creation: How Earth Made Life and Life Made EarthBy Olivia Judson

Finding Marty

Zooming in on a storied director

Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese’s Life in FilmBy Mark Binelli

Dramatic Paws

On the trail of the elusive big cat of the Himalaya

The Ghost of the Mountains: Unraveling the Secrets of the Snow LeopardBy Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi

Shooting for the Camera

A portrait of the 20th century’s most infamous assassin

Translating the Past

Modern wit meets age-old wisdom

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient LiteratureBy Emily Wilson

Sound Barrier

How Marian Anderson made and managed history

Voice of a Century: The Life and Artistry of Marian AndersonBy Anthony Tommasini

Unfriendly Exchange

The tale of a nuclear war that almost was

The Six Minute War: Reagan, Russia, and the Race to Automate ArmageddonBy Michael Dobbs

Knot in my Back Yard

Not all non-native plants and animals need to be eradicated

Undesirable: Invasive Species, Humans, and Where We All BelongBy Amy Crawford

Hidden Truths

A new portrait of one of the 20th century’s most controversial philosophers

Hannah Arendt: A Life of the MindBy Thomas Meyer (tr. Shelley Frisch)

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