Who Would I Be Off My Meds
Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?
By Scott Stossel Thursday, March 6, 2025
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Laura Delano
Who’s to Say? 
A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity
By Sarah Ruden Monday, March 3, 2025
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels
Chapters and Verse
Looking for the poet between the lines
By Jay Parini Monday, March 3, 2025
Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry by Adam Plunkett
Once More, Without Feeling
Can a memoir be effective when it lacks any warmth?
By Casey Schwartz Monday, March 3, 2025
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne
Electrons That Bind
The molecule at the center of everything
By Priscilla Long Monday, March 3, 2025
Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken
Food for Thought
A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats
By Anne Matthews Monday, March 3, 2025
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food by Vaclav Smil
Splitting Our Sides
A new biography of a comedy pioneer
By Stephen Macone Monday, March 3, 2025
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison
In the Lions’ Studio
A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
By Noah Isenberg Thursday, February 13, 2025
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation by Kenneth Turan
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Thursday, January 23, 2025
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union by Richard Carwardine
Arctic Fantasies
The region has long been an object of dreams, desire, and misunderstanding
By Neil Shea Monday, April 11, 2022
Extreme North: A Cultural Historyby Bernd Brunne
Gene Therapy
A writer’s search for herself in the branches of her family tree
By Nancy Isenberg Monday, March 28, 2022
Making the List
Finding the right page required centuries of experiment
By Charles Trueheart Monday, March 21, 2022
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Ageby Dennis Duncan
From Cold War to Y2K
Looking back on a decade that was often dumb but never dull
By Malcolm Jones Monday, March 14, 2022
The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
Found in Translation
An Iranian emigrant finds solace in Western literature
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, March 7, 2022
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Timesby Azar Nafisi
Wielders of the Knife
How doctors learned to keep patients alive on the operating table
By Perri Klass Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgeryby Ira Rutkow
Surviving the Ebb and Flow
The curious creatures that inhabit the ocean’s edge
By Miranda Weiss Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Life Between the Tidesby Adam Nicolson
Dollars Versus Degrees
Are business interests alone to blame for global warming?
By Donald Worster Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Presentby Eugene Linden
Where I End and We Begin
A writer reimagines her life by blending it with others
By Sally Greene Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Meeting of Romantic Minds
How a German university town helped usher in the modern age
By Gary Saul Morson Thursday, February 24, 2022
