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
Shadow Warriors
After 9/11, what happened when the gloves came off?
By Karen J. Greenberg Monday, March 5, 2018
Directorate Sby Steve Coll
Where the Sun Never Set
A new, multilayered history of the British Empire
By Paul Kennedy Monday, March 5, 2018
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906by David Cannadine
Literary Life on the Rocks
A writer’s own ordeal highlights the banal sameness of addiction
By Domenica Ruta Monday, March 5, 2018
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermathby Leslie Jamison
A Planet in Peril
Can humanity engineer its way out of trouble?
By David Gessner Monday, March 5, 2018
The Wizard and the Prophetby Charles C. Mann
A Window on Europe
How a tsar turned a fetid bog into an imperial capital
By Gary Saul Morson Monday, March 5, 2018
St. Petersburg: Madness, Murder, and Art on the Banks of the Nevaby Jonathan Miles
A Fallen Angel of Mercy
Did her good works expiate the sins of her dark past?
By Michela Wrong Monday, March 5, 2018
In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonementby John Heminway
Foes of Judgment
Numbers don’t always reveal the true nature of things
By Gary Saul Morson Wednesday, February 28, 2018
The Tyranny of Metricsby Jerry Z. Muller
An Even Greater Beyond
Will technology bring us eternal life?
By Sam Kean Thursday, February 22, 2018
Heavens on Earthby Michael Shermer
Why We Need Art
Can evolutionary biology explain the human impulse to create?
By Natalie Angier Monday, December 4, 2017
The Origins of Creativityby Edward O. Wilson
The Wanderer
How a Victorian novelist’s life and times inform our own
By Michela Wrong Monday, December 4, 2017
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global Worldby Maya Jasanoff
