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

Illustration of the body

How We Work

An anatomical tour of what it means to be human

The Body: A Guide for Occupantsby Bill Bryson

Downsized Living

Escaping the city, a writer finds contentment in a small town

If You Lived Here You’d Be Home by Nowby Christopher Ingraham

Sunset over Gettysburg battlefield

Rising Again

A writer finds much that hasn’t changed in the former Confederacy

Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divideby Tony Horwitz

Red rock formations in the desert are interspersed with cacti and brush

Bonanza of Greed

Myths and lies will, if we let them, spell the end of the public domain

This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American Westby Christopher Ketcham

Two women stand side-by-side in front of a stand of trees. The woman on the left is dressed in a light-colored coat., while the one on the right wears black.

Southern Secrets

Three very different women haunted by the past

Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of Americaby Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

A man in a suit with a red tie and sunglasses stands next to two soldiers in U.S. uniform. They are filmed by a third man.

The Difficult Diplomat

A highly flawed man who brought peace and controversy

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Centuryby George Packer

Two women console one another one the footsteps of a church.

What Makes Us Better

Two books explore whether morality is innate or learned

Conscience by Patricia S. ChurchlandThe War For Kindness by Jamil Zaki

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Plumbing the Depths

A writer explores the world beneath our feet

Underland: A Deep Time Journeyby Robert Macfarlane

Myths of Memory

Our ability to recall is not an undiluted gift

A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Pastby Lewis Hyde

A Blueprint for a Safer, Saner Society

How to reduce crime and warehousing in America’s prisons

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