Who Would I Be Off My Meds
Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?
By Scott Stossel Thursday, March 6, 2025
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Laura Delano
Who’s to Say?
A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity
By Sarah Ruden Monday, March 3, 2025
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels
Chapters and Verse
Looking for the poet between the lines
By Jay Parini Monday, March 3, 2025
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?
By Casey Schwartz Monday, March 3, 2025
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne
Electrons That Bind
The molecule at the center of everything
By Priscilla Long Monday, March 3, 2025
Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken
Food for Thought
A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats
By Anne Matthews Monday, March 3, 2025
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food by Vaclav Smil
Splitting Our Sides
A new biography of a comedy pioneer
By Stephen Macone Monday, March 3, 2025
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
By Noah Isenberg Thursday, February 13, 2025
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation by Kenneth Turan
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Thursday, January 23, 2025
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union by Richard Carwardine
Living Like White People
The disorientation of growing up privileged and black
By Thomas Chatterton Williams Monday, September 7, 2015
Negroland: A Memoir By Margo Jefferson
The Wisdom of the Ages
Looking to the classics to steel yourself against life’s cruelties
By Andrew J. Bacevich Monday, September 7, 2015
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
By Sam Kean Monday, June 8, 2015
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
By Nathalie Lagerfeld Monday, June 8, 2015
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
By S. C. Gwynne Monday, June 8, 2015
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
By Louise Fabiani Monday, June 8, 2015
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
By Werner Gundersheimer Monday, June 8, 2015
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
By Jan Morris Monday, June 8, 2015
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