For Want of Touch

The astonishing breadth of our passions

Imperiled Planet

The ecological havoc we’ve wrought

The Burning Earth: A History by Sunil Amrith

Ground Truth

A story of dirt, dollars, and death

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson

Insisting on the Positive

A popular historian’s philosophical musings

On Freedom by Timothy Snyder

A Stranger in the Seven Hills

A refugee’s experience in the Eternal City

Roman Year: A Memoir by André Aciman

Heart of Semi-Darkness

A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors

Mortal Coils

We aren’t alone in facing the inevitable

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death by Susana Monsó

Silent Partner

The union that may have made possible a writer’s late flourishing

A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri

Schmaltz of Significance

How the first talkie treated the myth of the melting pot

Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer by Richard Bernstein

We Are the Borg

Is the convergence of human and machine really upon us?

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

Invisible Ink

Giving center page to an era’s forgotten writers

Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissanceby Ramie Targoff

Chain Gang

The personalities behind one of Rome’s greatest treasures

Saving Michelangelo’s Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolutionby Wayne Kalayjian

The Jazz Singer

A new biography of an American legend

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year by Paul Alexander

Our Pets, Our Plates

In defense of the furred and the hoofed

We’ve Gone Mainstream

Latinos are invisible no more

LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minorityby Marie Arana

Acting Out

One tortuous journey from stage to screen

Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?by Philip Gefter

The Choice Is Ours

Survival of the most meaningful

Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existenceby Samuel T. Wilkinson

The Quest for Cather

When subjects play hard to get

Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylorby Benjamin Taylor

Thunder in Her Head

A new biography of a master choreographer

Errand into the Maze: The Life and Work of Martha Grahamby Deborah Jowitt

The Homesick Composer

Sergei Rachmaninoff may have taken American citizenship in 1943, but his heart and soul remained in his Russian past

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