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
With Noses Held High
Personal aspiration need not always lead to snobbery
By Becca Rothfeld Monday, June 6, 2016
Pretentiousness: Why It Matters By Dan Fox
Annals of Human Oddity
Casting an eye on “freaks” with sensitivity and compassion
By Andy Grundberg Monday, June 6, 2016
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer By Arthur Lubow
The Great Summing Up
The volumes that compiled the knowledge and spirit of an age
By James Gibney Monday, June 6, 2016
Everything Explained That Is Explainable By Denis Boyles
The Lives Aquatic
There is much more to gilled creatures than meets the eye
By Eugene Linden Monday, June 6, 2016
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins By Jonathan Balcombe
Bohemian Rhapsody
The troubled homeless historian who beguiled and bedeviled
By Sridhar Pappu Monday, June 6, 2016
Joe Gould’s Teeth By Jill Lepore
Lives of the Philosophers
The postwar thinkers who stripped the world of preconceptions
By Amanda Vaill Monday, February 29, 2016
At the Existentialist Café By Sarah Bakewell
Taking It to the Street
What it’s like to be down and out in America
By Jill Leovy Monday, February 29, 2016
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an IdeaBy Mitchell Duneier / Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City By Matthew Desmond
The Pursuit of Middle Heaven
Missives about sex, love, and the value of really good talk
By George O’Brien Monday, February 29, 2016
Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934–1995 Edited by Avril Horner and Anne Rowe
I Think, Therefore …
How much can we really know about the mystery of ourselves?
By Kathryn Tabb Monday, February 29, 2016
The Tides of the Mindby David Gelernter / On Being Human by Jerome Kagan
As the Bard Turns
The international appeal of the man from Stratford-upon-Avon
By Wendy Smith Monday, February 29, 2016
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe By Andrew Dickson
