Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
By Anne Matthews Thursday, December 5, 2024
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Monday, December 2, 2024
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
By Sierra Bellows Monday, December 2, 2024
Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts by Helen King
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, December 2, 2024
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?
By Evelyn McDonnell Monday, December 2, 2024
The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AI by David Hajdu
Barbarity at the Bataclan
A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light
By Charles Trueheart Monday, December 2, 2024
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
By Tim Carman Thursday, November 7, 2024
Masters of Horror and Magic
The German folklorists who helped build a nation
By Anne Matthews Friday, November 1, 2024
For Want of Touch
The astonishing breadth of our passions
By Diana Goetsch Thursday, September 26, 2024
The Bard of Suburbia
John Updike’s obsession with ordinary life made him the writer by whom we came to know ourselves
By Robert Wilson Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Updike By Adam Begley
19th Nervous Breakdown
The struggle to keep it together
By Gary Greenberg Tuesday, March 11, 2014
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind By Scott Stossel
A Danger to Ourselves
Tough on other species, too
By Mary Beth Saffo Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History By Elizabeth Kolbert
Whores de Combat
In search of adventure and engagement
By Charles Trueheart Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War By Amanda Vaill
The Fabulist
A literary critic’s ugly deception
By Robert Zaretsky Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The Double Life of Paul De Man By Evelyn Barish
Ready to Be Free
The end of the peculiar institution
By Louis P. Masur Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation By David Brion Davis
An Irascible Artist
Separating man from myth
By Eleanor Jones Harvey Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake By Daniel E. Sutherland
The Best Course
A beloved professor’s long shadow
By Michael Dirda Friday, December 6, 2013
Splendor of Heart: Walter Jackson Bate and the Teaching of Literature By Robert D. Richardson
The After-War
Some wounds don’t bleed
By Neil Shea Friday, December 6, 2013
Thank You for Your Service By David Finkel
Dean of Satire
A writer’s many masks
By George O’Brien Friday, December 6, 2013
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His Work By Leo Damrosch
