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
A Stranger Everywhere
The inner world of one of America’s great warrior poets
By Nicholas Buccola Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Baldwin: A Love StoryNicholas Boggs
The Matriarch of Spiritual Revolution
Was Mary the real source of her prophet son’s teachings?
By Randy Rosenthal Thursday, October 2, 2025
The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesusby James D. Tabor
A New Sweet Diminishment
What happens when a 60-year-old writer dons helmet and pads to compete under the Texas lights?
By Steve Yarbrough Friday, September 5, 2025
The Egoist
When a Zen master loses his way
By Michael O'Donnell Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Treu Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter MatthiessenLance Richardson
Time for a Demotion
We aren’t as special as we think
By Sy Montgomery Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It MattersChristine E. Webb
God on the Syllabus
A century after Bryan took on Darrow, battles over public school curricula rage on
By Sam Kean Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Hundred Years' Trial: Law, Evolution, and the Long Shadow of Scopes v. TennesseeAlexander Gouzoules and Harold Gouzoules
Dada Mama
The writer who made modernism mainstream
By Anne Matthews Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Gertrude Stein: An AfterlifeFrancesca Wade
Divided Front
A conflict’s conflicted history
By Jon Zobenica Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War IIDavid Nasaw
The Seeker and the Sought
A prominent Buddhist scholar’s quest to unify East and West
By Costică Brădăţan Thursday, August 21, 2025
Buddha, Socrates, and Us: Ethical Living in Uncertain Timesby Stephen Batchelor
Streams of Consciousness
A writer’s intrepid exploration of troubled waters
By Anne Matthews Thursday, August 7, 2025
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
