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

Abolition Gone Wrong

Despite good intentions, some opponents of the Atlantic slave trade caused more harm

Ship of DeathBy Billy G. Smith /The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World By Greg Grandin

Ministry of Talent

JFK’s thousand days of crisis

Camelot’s Court By Robert Dallek

Soaring Ambitions

Early hot-air balloonists ascended to previously unimaginable heights, stirring humanity’s sense of perspective and possibility

Falling Upwards By Richard Holmes

Southern Son

The wit and wisdom of a master

The Letters of C. Vann Woodward Edited by Michael O'Brien

Upward Bound

Abraham’s merciful stay of hand

But Where Is the Lamb?: Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac By James Goodman

Priestly Powers

A comic writer’s critical eye

Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942–1963 Edited by Katherine A. Powers

On the Brink

How safe are our nukes?

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety By Eric Schlosser

Lives of the Ancients

Animating the Greeks and Romans

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations By Mary Beard

Two of a Kind

A postwar friendship

Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize By Sean B. Carroll

Truth or Management

The perils and rewards of studying abroad

Waiting to be Heard By Amanda Knox

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