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
Girl Power
The enigma who ruled her world
By Gelareh Asayesh Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Cleopatra: A Life By Stacy Schiff
Tour de Horse
A masterly retelling of a death on the Plains
By Andrew Graybill Wednesday, December 1, 2010
The Killing of Crazy Horse By Thomas Powers
Man of Letters
A novelist finds his classic voice
By Jeremy Berlin Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Saul Bellow: Letters By Benjamin Taylor
Big Muddy
The river before Mark Twain
By Bruce Falconer Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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?
By Michael Sherry Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq By John Dower
Human Kind
Is selflessness in our nature?
By Sissela Bok Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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
By Philip Dray Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery By Eric Foner
Where Creeds Collide
Enmity at the intersections of religious radicalism
By Graeme Wood Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam By Eliza Griswold
James Baldwin’s America
Truths both hard and timeless
By Thomas Chatterton Williams Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings By James Baldwin
