Who Would I Be Off My Meds
Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?
By Scott Stossel Thursday, March 6, 2025
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Laura Delano
Who’s to Say? 
A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity
By Sarah Ruden Monday, March 3, 2025
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels
Chapters and Verse
Looking for the poet between the lines
By Jay Parini Monday, March 3, 2025
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?
By Casey Schwartz Monday, March 3, 2025
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne
Electrons That Bind
The molecule at the center of everything
By Priscilla Long Monday, March 3, 2025
Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken
Food for Thought
A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats
By Anne Matthews Monday, March 3, 2025
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food by Vaclav Smil
Splitting Our Sides
A new biography of a comedy pioneer
By Stephen Macone Monday, March 3, 2025
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
By Noah Isenberg Thursday, February 13, 2025
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation by Kenneth Turan
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Thursday, January 23, 2025
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union by Richard Carwardine
A Survey and an Assertion
Twelve potted philosophers and a theory of human values
By Carlin Romano Friday, June 3, 2011
Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche By James Miller
Beyond Nerves
Three women who helped engender modern psychiatry
By Laure Murat Friday, June 3, 2011
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris By Asti Hustvedt
Terrorist in Chief
Can anything keep Zimbabwe from slipping back into despotism?
By Paul Salopek Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe By Peter Godwin
Aping Us
Beasts behaving badly
By Clive D. L. Wynne Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The Moral Lives of Animals By Dale Peterson
Patriot Games
Hollywood’s Red Scare
By Elbert Ventura Wednesday, March 2, 2011
An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War By J. Hoberman
Harlem Notes
A writer goes uptown
By Thomas Chatterton Williams Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Bard Justice
Shakespeare and the law
By Jacob A. Stein Wednesday, March 2, 2011
A Thousand Times More Fair What Shakespeare’s Plays Teach Us About Justice By Kenji Yoshino
Math & Magic
The roots of Western science
By Sam Kean Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society & the Birth of the Modern World By Edward Dolnick
Tangled Up in Dylan
The enduring appeal of a legendary American songwriter
By Louis P. Masur Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010By Greil Marcus Bob Dylan in America By Sean Wilentz
Ode to Joy
What makes us happy?
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science By Sissela Bok
