Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Laura Delano

Who’s to Say?
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A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels

Chapters and Verse

Looking for the poet between the lines

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry by Adam Plunkett

Once More, Without Feeling

Can a memoir be effective when it lacks any warmth?

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne

Electrons That Bind

The molecule at the center of everything

Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken

Food for Thought

A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats

How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food by Vaclav Smil

Splitting Our Sides

A new biography of a comedy pioneer

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation by Kenneth Turan

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

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

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

Bad Medicine

Psychiatry’s mistaken manual

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of PsychiatryBy Gary Greenberg /Saving Normal By Allen Frances

True North

Yankees and their slaves

For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England By Allegra di Bonaventura

Out of Africa

A writer says goodbye to all that

The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari By Paul Theroux

Science, Right and Wrong

The evolution of knowledge

Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in EverythingBy Philip Ball /Brilliant Blunders By Mario Livio

The World All Before Them

Setting off on footpaths both well-trod and forgotten

The Old Ways: A Journey on FootBy Robert Macfarlane /Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey By Simon Armitage

Life Story

A bioethicist and his creation

In Search of the Good: A Life in Bioethics By Daniel Callahan /The Roots of Bioethics: Health, Progress, Technology, Death By Daniel Callahan

Smarty Ants

Intelligence isn’t just for humans

Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures By Virginia Morell

Found Fictions

A scholar broadens the canon

Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel By Philip F. Gura

Wing Men

Lepidopterists on the loose

Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World By William Leach

Totalitarianism in Practice

Terror as a way of life in East Germany, Poland, and Hungary

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 By Anne Applebaum

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