Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
By Anne Matthews Thursday, December 5, 2024
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Monday, December 2, 2024
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
By Sierra Bellows Monday, December 2, 2024
Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts by Helen King
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, December 2, 2024
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?
By Evelyn McDonnell Monday, December 2, 2024
The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AI by David Hajdu
Barbarity at the Bataclan
A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light
By Charles Trueheart Monday, December 2, 2024
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
By Tim Carman Thursday, November 7, 2024
Masters of Horror and Magic
The German folklorists who helped build a nation
By Anne Matthews Friday, November 1, 2024
For Want of Touch
The astonishing breadth of our passions
By Diana Goetsch Thursday, September 26, 2024
Of Faith and Tragedy
A scholar of early Christianity on how her work informed her life
By B. D. McClay Monday, December 3, 2018
Why Religion?by Elaine Pagels
Enigma From the East
A Soviet émigré’s never-ending battle to be understood
By Gary Saul Morson Monday, December 3, 2018
Between Two Millstonesby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; translated by Peter Constantine
The Guru of Athens
Can age-old philosophy lead the way to happiness?
By Caroline Alexander Monday, December 3, 2018
Aristotle's Wayby Edith Hall
Making Himself at Home
A German-born composer and his English oratorios
By Sudip Bose Monday, December 3, 2018
Handel in Londonby Jane Glover
The Portrait Master
Known for rendering others, a writer turns his attention inward
By Stephen Goodwin Monday, December 3, 2018
The Patchby John McPhee
The Death of Innocents
A look at the silent suffering of those caught in the crossfire
By Dennis Covington Monday, September 17, 2018
The Bodies in Personby Nick McDonell
The Loyal Opposition
A timely new biography of an avatar of courage and bipartisanship
By Richard Moe Tuesday, September 4, 2018
The Improbable Wendell Willkieby David Levering Lewis
A Poet in Purgatory
An inside look at a literary marriage that ended in disaster
By Sandra M. Gilbert Tuesday, September 4, 2018
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2: 1956–1963edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil
The Runaway Question
How people fleeing bondage helped transform the nation
By Louis P. Masur Tuesday, September 4, 2018
The War Before the Warby Andrew Delbanco
The House for the Soul
Investigating the rhythmic beat at the center of our lives
By Raj Telhan Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Heart: A History by Sandeep JauharTicker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart by Mimi Swartz
