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

Girl Power

The enigma who ruled her world

Cleopatra: A Life By Stacy Schiff

Tour de Horse

A masterly retelling of a death on the Plains

The Killing of Crazy Horse By Thomas Powers

Man of Letters

A novelist finds his classic voice

Saul Bellow: Letters By Benjamin Taylor

City Ways

Urban visions past and future

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities By Witold Rybczynski

Big Muddy

The river before Mark Twain

Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild By Lee Sandlin

Our Madness for War

Must we persist in using the military option when it so rarely works?

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq By John Dower

Human Kind

Is selflessness in our nature?

The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness By Oren Harman

Abe’s Evolution

How Lincoln went from frontier lawyer to Great Emancipator

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery By Eric Foner

Where Creeds Collide

Enmity at the intersections of religious radicalism

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam By Eliza Griswold

James Baldwin’s America

Truths both hard and timeless

The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings By James Baldwin

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