Hold the Salt
Reconsidering an ancient city’s bad reputation
By Charles G. Salas Friday, January 23, 2026
Carthage: A New History by Eve MacDonald
Scientists in Dreamland
What might our nightly visions mean?
By Alice Vernon Thursday, January 15, 2026
Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind by Michelle Carr
Conjurer of Worlds
The writer who made fantasy history
By Michael O'Donnell Monday, December 1, 2025
The Tower and the Ruin: J. R. R. Tolkien's Creation by Michael D. C. Drout
The Minotaur’s Muses
The romantic cruelty of a brilliant artist
By Anne Matthews Monday, December 1, 2025
Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso's Life by Sue Roe
Compassionate Curmudgeon
Why we must root ourselves in the real world
By Robert Zaretsky Monday, December 1, 2025
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods
Swept Away
A gusty tour of one of our planet’s primordial forces
By Juli Berwald Monday, December 1, 2025
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind by Simon Winchester
Making Trouble
A British aristocrat’s leftist noblesse oblige
By Charles Trueheart Monday, December 1, 2025
Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by Carla Kaplan
All His Biographers Merely Players
Retracing the Bard’s lost years
By Rachel Shteir Monday, December 1, 2025
The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare by Daniel Swift
Playwright, Poet, Outsider, Spy
The Wayward Scholar of the London Stage
By Steven G. Kellman Friday, November 14, 2025
A Stranger Everywhere
The inner world of one of America’s great warrior poets
By Nicholas Buccola Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Baldwin: A Love Story Nicholas Boggs
The Matriarch of Spiritual Revolution
Was Mary the real source of her prophet son’s teachings?
By Randy Rosenthal Thursday, October 2, 2025
The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesusby James D. Tabor
A New Sweet Diminishment
What happens when a 60-year-old writer dons helmet and pads to compete under the Texas lights?
By Steve Yarbrough Friday, September 5, 2025
The Egoist
When a Zen master loses his way
By Michael O'Donnell Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Treu Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter MatthiessenLance Richardson
Time for a Demotion
We aren’t as special as we think
By Sy Montgomery Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It MattersChristine E. Webb
God on the Syllabus
A century after Bryan took on Darrow, battles over public school curricula rage on
By Sam Kean Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Hundred Years' Trial: Law, Evolution, and the Long Shadow of Scopes v. TennesseeAlexander Gouzoules and Harold Gouzoules
Dada Mama
The writer who made modernism mainstream
By Anne Matthews Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Gertrude Stein: An AfterlifeFrancesca Wade
Divided Front
A conflict’s conflicted history
By Jon Zobenica Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War IIDavid Nasaw
The Seeker and the Sought
A prominent Buddhist scholar’s quest to unify East and West
By Costică Brădăţan Thursday, August 21, 2025
Buddha, Socrates, and Us: Ethical Living in Uncertain Timesby Stephen Batchelor
Streams of Consciousness
A writer’s intrepid exploration of troubled waters
By Anne Matthews Thursday, August 7, 2025
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
Sticking With It
A sobering chronicle of our toxic times
By Juli Berwald Thursday, July 31, 2025
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicalsby Mariah Blake
