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
Anyone Home?
The centuries-long debate over what resides between our ears
By T. M. Luhrmann Monday, September 7, 2015
Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind By George Makari
We Need to Chat
How technology has changed the way we relate to one another
By Jess Love Monday, September 7, 2015
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age By Sherry Turkle
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
