Unfriendly Exchange
The tale of a nuclear war that almost was
By Jeffrey Lewis Monday, October 26, 2026
The Six Minute War: Reagan, Russia, and the Race to Automate Armageddon By Michael Dobbs
Battle for the Ballot Box
How decades of legal attacks and court decisions have undermined the crown jewel of the civil rights movement
By Brandon Tensley Thursday, October 8, 2026
An American Problem: How the Country Built—and the Supreme Court Broke—the Voting Rights Act by Michael G. Miller and Kevin T. Morris
Shooting for the Camera
A portrait of the 20th century’s most infamous assassin
By Anne Matthews Monday, September 28, 2026
Chief Misunderstanding
A speculative, sputtering study of leadership
By Elizabeth D. Samet Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Our Energetic World
Life is not an accident but an inevitable result of physical laws
By Rebecca Boyle Tuesday, September 8, 2026
The Co-Creation: How Earth Made Life and Life Made Earth By Olivia Judson
Finding Marty
Zooming in on a storied director
By Michael O'Donnell Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese’s Life in Film By Mark Binelli
Dramatic Paws
On the trail of the elusive big cat of the Himalaya
By David Gessner Tuesday, September 8, 2026
The Ghost of the Mountains: Unraveling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard By Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi
Translating the Past
Modern wit meets age-old wisdom
By Rachel Hadas Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature By Emily Wilson
Sound Barrier
How Marian Anderson made and managed history
By Matthew Guerrieri Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Voice of a Century: The Life and Artistry of Marian Anderson By Anthony Tommasini
More Than Mere Words
The strange allure of the printed page
By Steven G. Kellman Thursday, January 26, 2023
Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
Have Trowel, Will Travel
A new biography of 20th-century America’s greatest landscape architect
By Penelope Rowlands Monday, December 19, 2022
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellonby Mac Griswold
Our Founding Contradiction
The entrenched dichotomy at the center of the national story
By Fergus M. Bordewich Thursday, December 1, 2022
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765–1795by Edward J. Larson
Head of the State
How the FBI’s founding director ruled from the shadows
By Charles Trueheart Thursday, December 1, 2022
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Centuryby Beverly Gage
Structural Foundations
The buildings that defined the Western world
By Amanda Kolson Hurley Thursday, December 1, 2022
The Story of Architectureby Witold Rybczynski
Quark of Habit
Scientists keep pushing for larger particle colliders—but is this really wise?
By Sabine Hossenfelder Thursday, December 1, 2022
The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the Worldby Suzie Sheehy
Beauty Born of Ashes
The story of a lyrical masterpiece that almost wasn’t
By A. E. Stallings Thursday, December 1, 2022
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis
To Hell and Back
An Italian master’s unlikely depictions of Dante’s dark vision
By Graeme Wood Monday, November 7, 2022
Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissanceby Joseph Luzzi
Of Dharma and Doom
A fresh translation revives the ending of an ancient Indian epic
By Sunil Iyengar Monday, September 5, 2022
After the War: The Last Books of the MahabharataWendy Doniger
Power of the Peoples
American history was shaped as much by Native Americans as by their colonizers
By Andrew Graybill Thursday, September 1, 2022
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen
