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

Deep Trouble

We should be more afraid for sharks than of them

Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks By Juliet Eilperin

Scholar-Activist

Is the search for truth compatible with the fight for justice?

Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir By Robert Jay Lifton

A Survey and an Assertion

Twelve potted philosophers and a theory of human values

Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche By James Miller

Beyond Nerves

Three women who helped engender modern psychiatry

Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris By Asti Hustvedt

Terrorist in Chief

Can anything keep Zimbabwe from slipping back into despotism?

The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe By Peter Godwin

Aping Us

Beasts behaving badly

The Moral Lives of Animals By Dale Peterson

Patriot Games

Hollywood’s Red Scare

An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War By J. Hoberman

Harlem Notes

A writer goes uptown

Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Bard Justice

Shakespeare and the law

A Thousand Times More Fair What Shakespeare’s Plays Teach Us About Justice By Kenji Yoshino

Math & Magic

The roots of Western science

The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society & the Birth of the Modern World By Edward Dolnick

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