Who Would I Be Off My Meds

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

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by 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 Jesus by Elaine Pagels

Chapters and Verse

Looking for the poet between the lines

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?

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne

Electrons That Bind

The molecule at the center of everything

Carbon: The Book of Life by 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 Food by Vaclav Smil

Splitting Our Sides

A new biography of a comedy pioneer

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

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

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by 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 Union by Richard Carwardine

Her Pages Caught Fire

A new biography of a ferociously talented and determined writer

A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis

Lost in the Garden

One essayist’s thorny tribute to another

Remaking a Killing

How a brutal double homicide in 19th-century France enflamed the imagination of a great Russian novelist

<em>The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece</em> by Kevin Birmingham

Poet of the Extreme

A noted novelist considers the life of an American master

Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Craneby Paul Auster

Holding the Reigns

Four queens condemned to live in interesting times

When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europeby Maureen Quilligan

Ancestral Present

The fruits of a decades-long inquiry into contemporary Indian culture

<em>Deep Hanging Out: Wanderings and Wonderment in Native California </em>by Malcolm Margolin

Life in the Shadows

The trauma and violence that prop up our economy

Lessons in Abstraction

The strange life of Europe’s most overlooked modernist

Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walserby Susan Bernofsky

From Mojave to the Moon

The new space race looks to put the superrich into orbit

Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronautby Nicholas Schmidle

Companions Through Time

A writer traces the footsteps of an Italian revolutionary icon

The Hero’s Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravennaby Tim Parks

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