Scientists in Dreamland
What might our nightly visions mean?
By Alice Vernon Thursday, January 15, 2026
Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind by Michelle Carr
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
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
Pilgrim of Eternity
The loves and legends of Lord Byron
By William Giraldi Monday, June 1, 2009
Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life By Edna O'Brien
The Peacock Problem
Does sexual selection really explain enough?
By Priscilla Long Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness By Joan Roughgarden
The Peacock Problem
What does evolution say about why we make art?
By Alexander Nehamas Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Art Instinct By Denis Dutton
Founding Portraitists
By Fergus M. Bordewich Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Painter’s Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art By Hugh Howard
Dark Mysteries
By Angeline Goreau Sunday, March 1, 2009
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor By Brad Gooch
At Liberty to Divulge
By John Rolfe Gardiner Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University By Kevin Roose
Circular Bread Line
By Sandra M. Gilbert Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread By Maria Balinska
Cal & Liz & Ted & Sylvia
The corresponding prose of midcentury poets
By Sudip Bose Monday, December 1, 2008
Letters of Ted Hughesselected and edited by Christopher Reid, Farrar, Straus and Giroux /Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A Passion for Architecture
Nuggets from a critical gold mine
By Stanley Abercrombie Monday, December 1, 2008
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?
By Richard Restak Monday, December 1, 2008
Obsession: A History By Lennard J. Davis
