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

A Passion for Architecture

Nuggets from a critical gold mine

On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change By Ada Louise Huxtable

Let Me Count the Ways

Are we getting more obsessive or more compulsive about diagnosing?

Obsession: A History By Lennard J. Davis

Lucid Madness

A massacre of Apache women and children, and the difficulties of telling their story

Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History By Karl Jacoby

Of Time and the Camera

An art critic and historian turns his attention to contemporary photography

Why Photography Matters Now as Art as Never Before By Michael Fried

Immortality Gained

John Milton was not only a great poet, but also a great defender of liberty

Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot By Anna Beer

Copyright Wrongs

When technology makes an illegal act easy, should the law make that act legal?

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy By Lawrence Lessig

How Special a Relationship?

Whether T.R. needed Edward VII to establish the United States as a world power

The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners By David Fromkin

Potted History

Learning more about slave life in South Carolina from a legendary potter-poet

Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave By Leonard Todd

Shaking Habit’s House

Critic James Wood preaches a return to the realism of Flaubert

How Fiction Works By James Wood, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Preparation of a Lifetime

Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again By Roger H. Martin

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