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

Risky Journeys

A cautionary tale of quixotic ambition and heroic achievement

James Joyce: A New Biography By Gordon Bowker

Coming of Age

Three bright young American women in the City of Light

Dreaming In French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis By Alice Kaplan

Cradle to Grave

The games we play and the arguments we have

The Mansion Of Happiness: A History of Life and Death By Jill Lepore

Con Man

A writer catalogs his great-grandfather’s infamous crimes

A Disposition To Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States By Geoffrey C. Ward

Artful Lies

A deception signals a new age

Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty By Modris Eksteins

All for One and One for All?

An eminent scientist reconsiders natural selection

The Social Conquest of Earth By Edward O. Wilson

Heavenly Body

An artist’s pursuit of symmetry

Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image By Toby Lester

The Moderate

Was Ike a great president?

Eisenhower in War and Peace By Jean Edward Smith

Founder of Our Freedoms

Rhode Island’s religious tolerance

Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul By John M. Barry

Say What?

How we talk American

Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume V Chief Editor Joan Houston Hall

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