Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
By Anne Matthews Thursday, December 5, 2024
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Monday, December 2, 2024
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
By Sierra Bellows Monday, December 2, 2024
Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts by Helen King
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, December 2, 2024
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?
By Evelyn McDonnell Monday, December 2, 2024
The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AI by David Hajdu
Barbarity at the Bataclan
A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light
By Charles Trueheart Monday, December 2, 2024
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
By Tim Carman Thursday, November 7, 2024
Masters of Horror and Magic
The German folklorists who helped build a nation
By Anne Matthews Friday, November 1, 2024
For Want of Touch
The astonishing breadth of our passions
By Diana Goetsch Thursday, September 26, 2024
Enlightenment Lite
By Sudip Bose Saturday, March 1, 2008
A Blue Hand: The Beats in India By Deborah Baker
The Work of Death
How the Civil War changed forever Americans’ relationship with mortality
By Ernest B. Furgurson Saturday, December 1, 2007
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War By Drew Gilpin Faust
Subjectivity Is All
Using a lifetime of colorful examples to define the undefinable
By Robert Campbell Saturday, December 1, 2007
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond By Peter Gay
The Casserole Inquisition
Chronicles from America’s culinary transformation
By Sandra M. Gilbert Saturday, December 1, 2007
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food By Judith Jones
Wry Eye on the Bard
Sorting through the little we know about the best we’ve got
By John F. Andrews Saturday, December 1, 2007
Shakespeare: The World as Stage By Bill Bryson
Latin’s Eminent Career
Is the language of empire, the church, scholarship, and Europe nearing retirement?
By A. E. Stallings Saturday, December 1, 2007
Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin By Nicholas Ostler
A Long Walk in the New World
Of 300 Spaniards sent to settle Florida, only four survived
By Robert Wilson Saturday, December 1, 2007
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca By Andrés Reséndez
The Genius and Her Sanctuary
Pivotal moments in the pairing of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
By Catharine R. Stimpson Saturday, September 1, 2007
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice By Janet Malcolm
Atonality and Beyond
The century when composers and audiences parted company
By Sudip Bose Saturday, September 1, 2007
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century By Alex Ross, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Early End of Consensus
Bitter partisanship began soon after George Washington left the scene
By Jill Ogline Saturday, September 1, 2007
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign By Edward J. Larson
