Who Would I Be Off My Meds
Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?
By Scott Stossel Thursday, March 6, 2025
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Laura Delano
Who’s to Say? 
A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity
By Sarah Ruden Monday, March 3, 2025
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels
Chapters and Verse
Looking for the poet between the lines
By Jay Parini Monday, March 3, 2025
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?
By Casey Schwartz Monday, March 3, 2025
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne
Electrons That Bind
The molecule at the center of everything
By Priscilla Long Monday, March 3, 2025
Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken
Food for Thought
A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats
By Anne Matthews Monday, March 3, 2025
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food by Vaclav Smil
Splitting Our Sides
A new biography of a comedy pioneer
By Stephen Macone Monday, March 3, 2025
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
By Noah Isenberg Thursday, February 13, 2025
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation by Kenneth Turan
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Thursday, January 23, 2025
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union by Richard Carwardine
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
Bungle in the Jungle
A new biography considers what might have been in Indochina
By Charles Trueheart Monday, December 4, 2017
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnamby Max Boot
The Colonial Melting Pot
Six very different people in a war of liberation
By T. H. Breen Monday, December 4, 2017
Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedomby Russell Shorto
