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

The Great Summing Up

The volumes that compiled the knowledge and spirit of an age

Everything Explained That Is Explainable By Denis Boyles

The Lives Aquatic

There is much more to gilled creatures than meets the eye

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins By Jonathan Balcombe

Bohemian Rhapsody

The troubled homeless historian who beguiled and bedeviled

Joe Gould’s Teeth By Jill Lepore

Lives of the Philosophers

The postwar thinkers who stripped the world of preconceptions

At the Existentialist Café By Sarah Bakewell

Taking It to the Street

What it’s like to be down and out in America

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

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?

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

Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe By Andrew Dickson

The Spirit of May 35th

A tale of dissidence, exile, astrophysics, and puckish wit

The Most Wanted Man in China By Fang Lizhi Translated by Perry Link

Speaking in Form and Color

The extraordinary paintings of an ordinary man

Mark Rothko: From the Inside Out By Christopher Rothko

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