Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel

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

Ideology as Anatomy

How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts by Helen King

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut

The Creator’s Code

Are humans alone in their ability to make art?

The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AI by David Hajdu

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr

Barbarity at the Bataclan

A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light

V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the French by John Lambert

Heart of Semi-Darkness

A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors

Masters of Horror and Magic

The German folklorists who helped build a nation

For Want of Touch

The astonishing breadth of our passions

Farm to Fable

How a now-forgotten writer changed American agriculture

The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolutionby Stephen Heyman

Gibney: Colonel Oleg Penkovsky

War by Other Means

Subverting governments with lies is nothing new

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfareby Thomas Rid

Image Was Everything

A new biography of the seminal pop artist of the 20th century

Warholby Blake Gopnik

Kellman: Stone and his wife, Janice in Hawaii, c. 1979.

Not Quite Forgotten

The unheralded success ofa fine American novelist

Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stoneby Madison Smartt Bell

Making Their Voices Heard

The story behind passage of the 19th Amendment

Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Voteby Ellen Carol DuBois

Allen: David Carr

Poet of the Newsroom

A journalist with the unteachable gift of making you read on

Final Draft: The Collected Work of David Carredited by Jill Rooney Carr

Kean: Galileo on trail at the Inquisition

Heaven and the Heretic

A brilliant scientist whose life is a cautionary tale

Galileo and the Science Deniersby Mario Livio

Glamour and Violence

A group portrait of the brutal Belle Époque

The Man in the Red Coatby Julian Barnes

Ralph Ellison

Visible Man

An intimate view of a great American writer

The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellisonedited by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner

History, Alive and Well

A writer’s tour of the Soviet world, 30 years after its collapse

Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europeby Rory MacLean

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