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

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

Tangled Up in Dylan

The enduring appeal of a legendary American songwriter

Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010By Greil Marcus Bob Dylan in America By Sean Wilentz

Ode to Joy

What makes us happy?

Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science By Sissela Bok

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