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

Physics for the Feeble-Minded

A crash course on our boundlessly bizarre universe

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolutionby Carlo Rovelli

Laureate of Lisbon

A new biography of one of Europe’s most overlooked modernists

Warrior Eros

How an army of homosexual men became one of the most elite fighting forces of the ancient world

The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedomby James Romm

Last Laugh

A memoir of jokes and jokers

Inside Comedy: The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decadesby David Steinberg

Future Fears

How a 19th-century writer and polymath anticipated the modern world

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Scienceby John Tresch

E Pluribus Unum?

Our national identity has always been hotly contested

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783–1850Alan Taylor

Deep-Rooted Communities

Our woods are connected by a hidden underground network

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forestby Suzanne Simard

Things Left Behind

A writer’s one-sided conversation with a ghost

Letters to CamondoEdmund de Waal

The Feminine Arts

A writer explores the elation and difficulty of making art while female

Art for the Ladylike: An Autobiography Through Other Lives Whitney Otto

The Geography of Neglect

A complex tale of belonging

African Europeans: An Untold Historyby Olivette Otele

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