The Jazz Singer
A new biography of an American legend
By Farah Jasmine Griffin Monday, March 4, 2024
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year by Paul Alexander
We’ve Gone Mainstream
Latinos are invisible no more
By Ilan Stavans Monday, March 4, 2024
LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie Arana
Acting Out
One tortuous journey from stage to screen
By Rachel Shteir Monday, March 4, 2024
Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Philip Gefter
The Choice Is Ours
Survival of the most meaningful
By John Kaag Monday, March 4, 2024
Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existence by Samuel T. Wilkinson
The Quest for Cather
When subjects play hard to get
By Anne Matthews Thursday, February 15, 2024
Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylor by Benjamin Taylor
Thunder in Her Head
A new biography of a master choreographer
By Jerome Charyn Thursday, February 1, 2024
Errand into the Maze: The Life and Work of Martha Graham by Deborah Jowitt
The Homesick Composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff may have taken American citizenship in 1943, but his heart and soul remained in his Russian past
By Joseph Horowitz Friday, January 26, 2024
The Creature Eating Its Tail
From progress to death wish
By Randy Rosenthal Monday, January 15, 2024
Heavy Mettle
A story of oppression and resilience
By Teri Ellen Cross Davis Monday, December 18, 2023
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul by Tracy K. Smith
A Blast of a Time
The scientific underpinnings of Armageddon
By Jeffrey Lewis Thursday, June 26, 2025
Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Ageby Frank Close
A Portrait of the Scholar
The life of Ireland’s towering literary figure became a work of art in its own right
By Michael O'Donnell Thursday, June 19, 2025
Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Makerby Zachary Leader
The Unjolly Green Giant
How C. F. Seabrook became the Lear of the vegetable fields
By Anne Matthews Monday, June 9, 2025
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynastyby John Seabrook
The Rascal of Pont-Aven
Reassessing a renowned painter’s troubling life
By Hannah Stamler Monday, June 2, 2025
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguinby Sue Prideaux
Sticking With It
A sobering chronicle of our toxic times
By Juli Berwald Monday, June 2, 2025
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicalsby Mariah Blake
Unbuilding the Mystery
What might Indigenous spiritual practices have in common?
By Ilan Stavans Monday, June 2, 2025
Shamanism: The Timeless Religionby Manvir Singh
Farmed Out
The uncertain future of the nation’s heartland
By Donald Worster Monday, June 2, 2025
Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairieby Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty
Streams of Consciousness
A writer’s intrepid exploration of troubled waters
By Anne Matthews Monday, June 2, 2025
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
An Enigma at the Center
The story of the American West in one photograph
By Alix Christie Thursday, May 22, 2025
The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American Westby Martha S. Sandweiss
Doing Nothing Is Everything
An areligious writer finds peace in a Benedictine monastery
By Costică Brădăţan Thursday, April 10, 2025
Aflame: Learning from Silenceby Pico Iyer
