Conjurer of Worlds
The writer who made fantasy history
By Michael O'Donnell Monday, December 1, 2025
The Tower and the Ruin: J. R. R. Tolkien's Creation by Michael D. C. Drout
Hold the Salt
Reconsidering an ancient city’s bad reputation
By Charles G. Salas Monday, December 1, 2025
Carthage: A New History by Eve MacDonald
Scientists in Dreamland
What might our nightly visions mean?
By Alice Vernon Monday, December 1, 2025
Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind by Michelle Carr
The Minotaur’s Muses
The romantic cruelty of a brilliant artist
By Anne Matthews Monday, December 1, 2025
Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso's Life by Sue Roe
Compassionate Curmudgeon
Why we must root ourselves in the real world
By Robert Zaretsky Monday, December 1, 2025
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods
Swept Away
A gusty tour of one of our planet’s primordial forces
By Juli Berwald Monday, December 1, 2025
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind by Simon Winchester
Making Trouble
A British aristocrat’s leftist noblesse oblige
By Charles Trueheart Monday, December 1, 2025
Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by Carla Kaplan
All His Biographers Merely Players
Retracing the Bard’s lost years
By Rachel Shteir Monday, December 1, 2025
The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare by Daniel Swift
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
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
Gross Anatomy
A physician’s inside stories about the human body
By Richard McCann Monday, June 1, 2009
Carrying the Heart: Exploring the Worlds Within Us By F. González-Crussi
The Lost Village
A Palestinian poet remembers the people and places he has lived without
By Nathalie Handal Monday, June 1, 2009
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century By Adina Hoffman
