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
Lucid Madness
A massacre of Apache women and children, and the difficulties of telling their story
By William Howarth Monday, December 1, 2008
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
By Andy Grundberg Monday, December 1, 2008
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
By Jay Parini Monday, September 1, 2008
Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot By Anna Beer
Copyright Wrongs
When technology makes an illegal act easy, should the law make that act legal?
By Paul K. Saint-Amour Monday, September 1, 2008
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
By Joshua Hawley Monday, September 1, 2008
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
By Scott Reynolds Nelson Monday, September 1, 2008
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
By Sarah L. Courteau Monday, September 1, 2008
How Fiction Works By James Wood, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Preparation of a Lifetime
By Sanford J. Ungar Monday, September 1, 2008
Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again By Roger H. Martin
Over There
A pugnacious public intellectual looks to Europe for his ideal
By Jean Bethke Elshtain Sunday, June 1, 2008
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century By Tony Judt
Democracy in Three Dimensions?
How the nation’s capital rose from a fetid forest on the backs of slaves