Bending Toward Justice
Rejecting the “race riot” myth means facing the ugly truth
By Sally Greene Thursday, July 16, 2026
They Stole a City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live With Its Legacy by Lauren Collins
Verse From the Abyss
How a Jewish poet rebuilt his mother tongue in the wake of the Holocaust
By Piotr Florczyk Thursday, July 9, 2026
Paul Celan: A Life by Anna Arno, translated by Soren Gauger
Where Are We?
Finding our bearings has never been so risky
By Peter Turchi Monday, June 29, 2026
Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World By Katherine Dunn
Blood—and Beauty—at the Root
Fifty years ago, Alex Haley’s landmark novel changed the way many Americans thought about race
By Brandon Tensley Monday, June 15, 2026
Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World by Lucas L. Johnson II
In Defense of Difficult Reading
The tomes of the past cultivate the lost art of sustained attention
By Todd Shy Friday, June 5, 2026
What’s So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) Naomi Kanakia
Inside Man
A young reporter’s devastating exposé of the amoral elite
By Anne Matthews Monday, June 1, 2026
How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University By Theo Baker
Things Fall Apart
A meditation on entropy, obsolescence, and death
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, June 1, 2026
How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information By Thomas S. Mullaney
Into the Wilds
The tangled terrain of untrammeled lands
By Miranda Weiss Monday, June 1, 2026
The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness By Cal Flyn
The Painter Time Forgot
An overdue reckoning of an artist’s volcanic genius
By Rebecca Bedell Monday, June 1, 2026
Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World By Victoria Johnson
Canonical Contempt
Even in the 18th century, Edward Gibbon’s misogyny set him apart
By Michael O'Donnell Monday, June 1, 2026
The Conversions of Edward Gibbon: A Modern Biography By Martha Saxton
War by Other Means
Subverting governments with lies is nothing new
By James Gibney Monday, March 2, 2020
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfareby Thomas Rid
Image Was Everything
A new biography of the seminal pop artist of the 20th century
By Meryle Secrest Monday, March 2, 2020
Warholby Blake Gopnik
Not Quite Forgotten
The unheralded success ofa fine American novelist
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, March 2, 2020
Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stoneby Madison Smartt Bell
Making Their Voices Heard
The story behind passage of the 19th Amendment
By Nancy Isenberg Monday, March 2, 2020
Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Voteby Ellen Carol DuBois
Poet of the Newsroom
A journalist with the unteachable gift of making you read on
By Henry Allen Monday, March 2, 2020
Final Draft: The Collected Work of David Carredited by Jill Rooney Carr
Heaven and the Heretic
A brilliant scientist whose life is a cautionary tale
By Sam Kean Monday, March 2, 2020
Galileo and the Science Deniersby Mario Livio
Glamour and Violence
A group portrait of the brutal Belle Époque
By Anka Muhlstein Monday, March 2, 2020
The Man in the Red Coatby Julian Barnes
Visible Man
An intimate view of a great American writer
By Randall Kenan Monday, December 2, 2019
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellisonedited by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner
History, Alive and Well
A writer’s tour of the Soviet world, 30 years after its collapse
By Graeme Wood Monday, December 2, 2019
Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europeby Rory MacLean
A Biographer Looks Back
A noted practitioner reveals her tricks of the trade
By Ann Jefferson Monday, December 2, 2019
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Meby Deirdre Bair
