Allergen Alert

When the back-to-school shopping list includes an EpiPen

Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in Changing World by Theresa MacPhail

Myth, Mystery, and Contradiction

A journey through a region in search of itself

Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski

Sea Changes

Navigating the currents of midlife—and redefining home along the way

Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years by Heidi Julavits

Family Tatters

A social experiment gone wrong

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille

Frontline Oracle

A new biography of America’s most beloved grunt reporter

The Soldier’s Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II by David Chrisinger

We Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet

After Covid-19, what might be next?

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic by Emily Monosson

Don’t Forget Intuition

The art of doing science

In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems by Giorgio Parisi

Shell Shock and Awe

The enduring terror of the trenches

Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War by Charles Glass

Notes and Outtakes

Good writing never gets old

Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 by John McPhee

Someone’s Gotta Do It

On transforming monotony into meaning

Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle

Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel

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

Ideology as Anatomy

How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Partsby Helen King

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Creator’s Code

Are humans alone in their ability to make art?

The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AIby David Hajdu

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apartby Nicholas Carr

Barbarity at the Bataclan

A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light

V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the Frenchby John Lambert

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

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