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

We Need to Chat

How technology has changed the way we relate to one another

Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age By Sherry Turkle

Living Like White People

The disorientation of growing up privileged and black

Negroland: A Memoir By Margo Jefferson

The Wisdom of the Ages

Looking to the classics to steel yourself against life’s cruelties

The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today By Bryan Doerries

It Takes a Laboratory

Science is no longer the domain of solitary experimenters

Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex By Michael Hiltzik

Boldly Going No More

The space shuttle program’s unheralded demise

Leaving Orbit: Notes From the Last Days of American Spaceflight By Margaret Lazarus Dean

Eyewitness

A spy’s exploits in the heart of the Confederacy

Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South By Christopher Dickey

Big Shoulders

How curiosity and cognition have driven our species forward

The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos By Leonard Mlodinow

The Paper Chase

Years of tireless collecting led to one of the world’s great libraries

The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio By Andrea Mays

Fantastic Four

The enduring influence of a quartet of Oxford dons

The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings By Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski

Hearts With One Purpose

A revealing group portrait of Ireland’s motley crew of rebels

Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923 By R. F. Foster

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