Bending Toward Justice
Rejecting the “race riot” myth means facing the ugly truth
By Sally Greene Thursday, July 16, 2026
They Stole a City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live With Its Legacy by Lauren Collins
Verse From the Abyss
How a Jewish poet rebuilt his mother tongue in the wake of the Holocaust
By Piotr Florczyk Thursday, July 9, 2026
Paul Celan: A Life by Anna Arno, translated by Soren Gauger
Where Are We?
Finding our bearings has never been so risky
By Peter Turchi Monday, June 29, 2026
Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World By Katherine Dunn
Blood—and Beauty—at the Root
Fifty years ago, Alex Haley’s landmark novel changed the way many Americans thought about race
By Brandon Tensley Monday, June 15, 2026
Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World by Lucas L. Johnson II
In Defense of Difficult Reading
The tomes of the past cultivate the lost art of sustained attention
By Todd Shy Friday, June 5, 2026
What’s So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) Naomi Kanakia
Inside Man
A young reporter’s devastating exposé of the amoral elite
By Anne Matthews Monday, June 1, 2026
How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University By Theo Baker
Things Fall Apart
A meditation on entropy, obsolescence, and death
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, June 1, 2026
How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information By Thomas S. Mullaney
Into the Wilds
The tangled terrain of untrammeled lands
By Miranda Weiss Monday, June 1, 2026
The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness By Cal Flyn
The Painter Time Forgot
An overdue reckoning of an artist’s volcanic genius
By Rebecca Bedell Monday, June 1, 2026
Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World By Victoria Johnson
Canonical Contempt
Even in the 18th century, Edward Gibbon’s misogyny set him apart
By Michael O'Donnell Monday, June 1, 2026
The Conversions of Edward Gibbon: A Modern Biography By Martha Saxton
Second Thoughts
To manipulate time, we must first understand how it works
By George Musser Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Time Travel: A HistoryBy James Gleick / Now: The Physics of Time By Richard A. Muller
Darkness Illuminated
A horror writer whose real demons were off the page
By Susan Cheever Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted LifeBy Ruth Franklin
Territories of Conquest
A new history of the bloodletting that opened the frontier
By Andrew Graybill Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American WestBy Peter Cozzens
Before the Rebellion
A colonial American artist’s portraits of an age
By Meryle Secrest Tuesday, September 6, 2016
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton CopleyBy Jane Kamensky
The Old Urbanist
Jane Jacobs saw cities as places for people
By Edward Glaeser Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane JacobsBy Robert Kanigel
Healing the Masses
The evolution of care at the nation’s oldest public hospital
By T. M. Luhrmann Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied HospitalBy David Oshinsky
A Rare Intelligence
A review of a thrilling life
By Bruce Falconer Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My LifeBy John le Carré
Manifest Poverty
Poor southern whites have long been a people without a country
By Dennis Covington Monday, June 6, 2016
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America By Nancy Isenberg
Courting All Voters
The judicial effects of American civic engagement
By Lincoln Caplan Monday, June 6, 2016
Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law By David Cole
With Noses Held High
Personal aspiration need not always lead to snobbery
By Becca Rothfeld Monday, June 6, 2016
Pretentiousness: Why It Matters By Dan Fox
