From Mandate to Nation State

How a failed Arab rebellion ensured Israel’s survival

Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by Oren Kessler

Doors of Perception

The often unreliable ways we interpret reality

Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses by Ashley Ward

Culture Shock

The hidden history of reverse colonization

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock

Life at the Bottom

It’s not just the rich who victimize the poor

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

The Center Cannot Hold

A kaleidoscopic journey through a divided country

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet

Tales of Memory and Forgetting

What happens when we cease to be who we were?

Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain by Dasha Kiper by Dasha Kiper

Errant Thought

Can we keep the Enlightenment from dimming?

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell

More Than Mere Words

The strange allure of the printed page

Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers

Have Trowel, Will Travel

A new biography of 20th-century America’s greatest landscape architect

I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon by Mac Griswold

Our Founding Contradiction

The entrenched dichotomy at the center of the national story

American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765–1795 by Edward J. Larson

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano

Who’s to Say?
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A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesusby Elaine Pagels

Chapters and Verse

Looking for the poet between the lines

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetryby Adam Plunkett

Once More, Without Feeling

Can a memoir be effective when it lacks any warmth?

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritanceby Joe Dunthorne

Electrons That Bind

The molecule at the center of everything

Carbon: The Book of Lifeby Paul Hawken

Food for Thought

A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats

How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Foodby Vaclav Smil

Splitting Our Sides

A new biography of a comedy pioneer

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Liveby Susan Morrison

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equationby Kenneth Turan

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apartby Nicholas Carr

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

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