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

Beyond Classification

One writer’s journey into the labyrinth of political and bureaucratic obfuscation

Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Actby Nicholson Baker

How We Came Together

America purchased its sense of itself at a high price

Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhoodby Colin Woodard

A Lifelong Habit of Being

Exploring a fundamentally ambiguous attribute

Character: The History of a Cultural Obsessionby Marjorie Garber

Our Feathered Friends

They aren’t the intellectual lightweights we take them for

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Thinkby Jennifer Ackerman

The People’s Gallery

A collection that is the brightest light in a city full of them

The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museumby James Gardner

Mysterious Inheritance

A new biography of the founder of population genetics

A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldaneby Samanth Subramanian

Feminism’s First Think Tank

The very different women of the Radcliffe Institute’s inaugural class

The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960sMaggie Doherty

Plane silhouetted against clouds

The Beauty of Fluid Motion

How the future became fashionable

Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion by Vanessa R. Schwartz

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

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