Playwright, Poet, Outsider, Spy
The Wayward Scholar of the London Stage
By Steven G. Kellman Friday, November 14, 2025
A Stranger Everywhere
The inner world of one of America’s great warrior poets
By Nicholas Buccola Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Baldwin: A Love Story Nicholas Boggs
The Matriarch of Spiritual Revolution
Was Mary the real source of her prophet son’s teachings?
By Randy Rosenthal Thursday, October 2, 2025
The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus by James D. Tabor
A New Sweet Diminishment
What happens when a 60-year-old writer dons helmet and pads to compete under the Texas lights?
By Steve Yarbrough Friday, September 5, 2025
The Egoist 
When a Zen master loses his way
By Michael O'Donnell Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Treu Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen Lance Richardson
Time for a Demotion
We aren’t as special as we think
By Sy Montgomery Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters Christine E. Webb
God on the Syllabus
A century after Bryan took on Darrow, battles over public school curricula rage on
By Sam Kean Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Hundred Years' Trial: Law, Evolution, and the Long Shadow of Scopes v. Tennessee Alexander Gouzoules and Harold Gouzoules
Dada Mama
The writer who made modernism mainstream
By Anne Matthews Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife Francesca Wade
Divided Front
A conflict’s conflicted history
By Jon Zobenica Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II David Nasaw
The Seeker and the Sought
A prominent Buddhist scholar’s quest to unify East and West
By Costică Brădăţan Thursday, August 21, 2025
Buddha, Socrates, and Us: Ethical Living in Uncertain Times by Stephen Batchelor
The Tales Buildings Tell
Architects can overwhelm their creations; time can make a hash of great visions
By Stanley Abercrombie Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories By Edward Hollis
Through Fire and Flood
Faulkner’s best fiction emerged from his willingness to face crises
By Jay Parini Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner By Philip Weinstein
A Day in the Life
Reading Joyce’s Ulysses as a guide to urban living
By Sudip Bose Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce’s Masterpiece By Declan Kiberd
Art in the Time of War
A prescient and courageous few safeguarded Italy’s patrimony
By Susannah Rutherglen Tuesday, September 1, 2009
The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II By Ilaria Dagnini Brey, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Common Good
The case for a standardized curriculum for all American children
By Richard D. Kahlenberg Tuesday, September 1, 2009
The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools By E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Film Release
A woman’s burdened life and transcendent photographs
By Shirley Streshinsky Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits By Linda Gordon
Relativity and All That
Big Science bears down on Einstein’s equation
By Apurva Narechania Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?) By Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Watchers of the Skies
Heroes of British science, and the Romantic poets they inspired
By Robert Wilson Tuesday, September 1, 2009
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science By Richard Holmes
Barbarian Virtues
When Americans first yearned to transform themselves and save the world
By Patricia O’Toole Monday, June 1, 2009
Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 By Jackson Lears
Jungle Bungle
As a rubber baron, Henry Ford was no Firestone
By Wayne Curtis Monday, June 1, 2009
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City By Greg Grandin
