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

Dirty Books

A publisher’s lifelong battle against censorship

The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the ’50s, New York in the ’60s: A Memoir of Publishing’s Golden Age By Richard Seaver

Big Thinker

The diplomat who argued for “containment”—and lived to regret it

George F. Kennan: An American Life By John Lewis Gaddis

The Nature of Things

An ancient poem’s appeal

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern By Stephen Greenblatt

Irregular Guy

The sage of Baker Street

On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling By Michael Dirda

Memento Mori

A mother’s grief

Blue Nights By Joan Didion

Fields Apart

Physics, past and future

The Infinity PuzzleBy Frank Close /Physics on the Fringe By Margaret Wertheim

Virtual Vigilantes

A tale of crime online

Worm: The First Digital World War By Mark Bowden

Identity Crisis

Who was the real Tolstoy?

Tolstoy: A Russian Life By Rosamund Bartlett

Getting Better All the Time

Although you wouldn’t know it by watching the local news, humankind is becoming ever more civilized

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined By Steven Pinker

A Chesterton With No Flab

A new anthology often obscures the writer’s best work

The Everyman Chesterton By G. K. Chesterton

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