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

Literary Life on the Rocks

A writer’s own ordeal highlights the banal sameness of addiction

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermathby Leslie Jamison

A Planet in Peril

Can humanity engineer its way out of trouble?

The Wizard and the Prophetby Charles C. Mann

A Window on Europe

How a tsar turned a fetid bog into an imperial capital

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?

In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonementby John Heminway

Foes of Judgment

Numbers don’t always reveal the true nature of things

The Tyranny of Metricsby Jerry Z. Muller

An Even Greater Beyond

Will technology bring us eternal life?

Heavens on Earthby Michael Shermer

Why We Need Art

Can evolutionary biology explain the human impulse to create?

The Origins of Creativityby Edward O. Wilson

The Wanderer 

How a Victorian novelist’s life and times inform our own

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

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

Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedomby Russell Shorto

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