The Work of Death
How the Civil War changed forever Americans’ relationship with mortality
By Ernest B. Furgurson Saturday, December 1, 2007
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War By Drew Gilpin Faust
Subjectivity Is All
Using a lifetime of colorful examples to define the undefinable
By Robert Campbell Saturday, December 1, 2007
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond By Peter Gay
The Casserole Inquisition
Chronicles from America’s culinary transformation
By Sandra M. Gilbert Saturday, December 1, 2007
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food By Judith Jones
Wry Eye on the Bard
Sorting through the little we know about the best we’ve got
By John F. Andrews Saturday, December 1, 2007
Shakespeare: The World as Stage By Bill Bryson
Latin’s Eminent Career
Is the language of empire, the church, scholarship, and Europe nearing retirement?
By A. E. Stallings Saturday, December 1, 2007
Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin By Nicholas Ostler
A Long Walk in the New World
Of 300 Spaniards sent to settle Florida, only four survived
By Robert Wilson Saturday, December 1, 2007
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca By Andrés Reséndez
The Genius and Her Sanctuary
Pivotal moments in the pairing of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
By Catharine R. Stimpson Saturday, September 1, 2007
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice By Janet Malcolm
Atonality and Beyond
The century when composers and audiences parted company
By Sudip Bose Saturday, September 1, 2007
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century By Alex Ross, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Early End of Consensus
Bitter partisanship began soon after George Washington left the scene
By Jill Ogline Saturday, September 1, 2007
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign By Edward J. Larson
Swept Away
When Géricault painted The Raft of the Medusa, he immersed himself in his subject’s horrors
By Anthony Brandt Saturday, September 1, 2007
The Wreck of the Medusa By Jonathan Miles
Bending Toward Justice
Rejecting the “race riot” myth means facing the ugly truth
By Sally Greene Thursday, July 16, 2026
They Stole a City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live With Its Legacyby Lauren Collins
Verse From the Abyss
How a Jewish poet rebuilt his mother tongue in the wake of the Holocaust
By Piotr Florczyk Thursday, July 9, 2026
Paul Celan: A Lifeby Anna Arno, translated by Soren Gauger
Where Are We?
Finding our bearings has never been so risky
By Peter Turchi Monday, June 29, 2026
Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern WorldBy Katherine Dunn
Blood—and Beauty—at the Root
Fifty years ago, Alex Haley’s landmark novel changed the way many Americans thought about race
By Brandon Tensley Monday, June 15, 2026
Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the Worldby Lucas L. Johnson II
In Defense of Difficult Reading
The tomes of the past cultivate the lost art of sustained attention
By Todd Shy Friday, June 5, 2026
What’s So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) Naomi Kanakia
Inside Man
A young reporter’s devastating exposé of the amoral elite
By Anne Matthews Monday, June 1, 2026
How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford UniversityBy Theo Baker
Things Fall Apart
A meditation on entropy, obsolescence, and death
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, June 1, 2026
How We Disappear: A Personal History of InformationBy Thomas S. Mullaney
Into the Wilds
The tangled terrain of untrammeled lands
By Miranda Weiss Monday, June 1, 2026
The Savage Landscape: How We Made the WildernessBy Cal Flyn
The Painter Time Forgot
An overdue reckoning of an artist’s volcanic genius
By Rebecca Bedell Monday, June 1, 2026
Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the WorldBy Victoria Johnson
Canonical Contempt
Even in the 18th century, Edward Gibbon’s misogyny set him apart
By Michael O'Donnell Monday, June 1, 2026
The Conversions of Edward Gibbon: A Modern BiographyBy Martha Saxton
