Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel

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

Ideology as Anatomy

How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts by Helen King

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

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?

The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AI by David Hajdu

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr

Barbarity at the Bataclan

A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light

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

Masters of Horror and Magic

The German folklorists who helped build a nation

For Want of Touch

The astonishing breadth of our passions

To Flee or Not to Flee

The stigma of failed courage

Cowardice: A Brief History By Chris Walsh

Champion of Modernism

A literary life on the edge

“Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions By Ian S. MacNiven

Breaking the Bonds

How runaway slaves got North

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad By Eric Foner

Hell and Back

No Man’s Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America By Elizabeth D. Samet

Sound and Fury

The flawed, tragic hero whose music defined an age

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph By Jan Swafford

The Big Uneasy

A city’s seamy side

Empire of Sin By Gary Krist

Solar Complexus

We may be alone after all

The Copernicus Complex By Caleb Scharf

Anything Goes

Prose for the people

The Sense of Style By Steven Pinker

Our Beastly Friends

A literary walk on the wild side

Zoologies By Alison Hawthorne Deming

Frozen Hell

An expedition gone wrong

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette By Hampton Sides

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