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
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
By Heather Ewing Sunday, June 1, 2008
Washington: The Making of the American Capital By Fergus M. Bordewich
