Knot in my Back Yard
Not all non-native plants and animals need to be eradicated
By Sam Kean Thursday, August 27, 2026
Undesirable: Invasive Species, Humans, and Where We All Belong By Amy Crawford
Hidden Truths
A new portrait of one of the 20th century’s most controversial philosophers
By Robert Zaretsky Thursday, August 13, 2026
Hannah Arendt: A Life of the Mind By Thomas Meyer (tr. Shelley Frisch)
Bending Toward Justice
Rejecting the “race riot” myth means facing the ugly truth
By Sally Greene Thursday, July 16, 2026
They Stole a City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live With Its Legacy by Lauren Collins
Verse From the Abyss
How a Jewish poet rebuilt his mother tongue in the wake of the Holocaust
By Piotr Florczyk Thursday, July 9, 2026
Paul Celan: A Life by Anna Arno, translated by Soren Gauger
Where Are We?
Finding our bearings has never been so risky
By Peter Turchi Monday, June 29, 2026
Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World By Katherine Dunn
Blood—and Beauty—at the Root
Fifty years ago, Alex Haley’s landmark novel changed the way many Americans thought about race
By Brandon Tensley Monday, June 15, 2026
Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World by Lucas L. Johnson II
In Defense of Difficult Reading
The tomes of the past cultivate the lost art of sustained attention
By Todd Shy Friday, June 5, 2026
What’s So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) Naomi Kanakia
Inside Man
A young reporter’s devastating exposé of the amoral elite
By Anne Matthews Monday, June 1, 2026
How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University By Theo Baker
Things Fall Apart
A meditation on entropy, obsolescence, and death
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, June 1, 2026
How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information By Thomas S. Mullaney
Into the Wilds
The tangled terrain of untrammeled lands
By Miranda Weiss Monday, June 1, 2026
The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness By Cal Flyn
Someone’s Gotta Do It
On transforming monotony into meaning
By Lydia Moland Thursday, June 1, 2023
Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Livingby John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle
Death in Drohobych
A new biography of a Polish literary master
By Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough Monday, May 1, 2023
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of Historyby Benjamin Balint
Our Pragmatic Present
There is no prescribed meaning or purpose to our lives—and that’s okay
By John Kaag Monday, March 27, 2023
Mind in Nature: John Dewey, Cognitive Science, and a Naturalistic Philosophy for Livingby Mark Johnson and Jay Schulkin
From Mandate to Nation State
How a failed Arab rebellion ensured Israel’s survival
By Randy Rosenthal Monday, March 6, 2023
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
By Natalie Angier Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Sensesby Ashley Ward
Culture Shock
The hidden history of reverse colonization
By Ilan Stavans Wednesday, March 1, 2023
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europeby Caroline Dodds Pennock
Life at the Bottom
It’s not just the rich who victimize the poor
By Nancy Isenberg Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
The Center Cannot Hold
A kaleidoscopic journey through a divided country
By Elizabeth D. Samet Wednesday, March 1, 2023
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil Warby Jeff Sharlet
Tales of Memory and Forgetting
What happens when we cease to be who we were?
By Scott Stossel Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain by Dasha Kiperby Dasha Kiper
Errant Thought
Can we keep the Enlightenment from dimming?
