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

One Nation Under God

The contentious role of Christianity in politics

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald; Simon &amp

“Time to Plant Tears”

An intimate biography of one of the 20th century’s great poets

Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall

Taking Old Abe to Task

A historian’s uncommonly grim view of the Great Emancipator

Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons by Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Travels in Literary Time

A writer’s excursions beyond mere archives

This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic BiographerRichard Holmes

Selective Memory

Ideas do not always catch on right away

The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation By Randall Fuller

Controlled Experiments

The Soviet Union’s ideological and inefficient view of science

Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905–1953 By Simon Ings

Too Much Poetic License

An attempt to identify the object of the Bard’s affections

Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare’s Sonnets By Elaine Scarry

Sisters of the Night Sky

The pioneering female scientists who first charted the universe

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars By Dava Sobel

Feeling No Pain

A philosopher argues we should not be misled by our hearts

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion Paul Bloom

Second Thoughts

To manipulate time, we must first understand how it works

Time Travel: A HistoryBy James Gleick / Now: The Physics of Time By Richard A. Muller

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