Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

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

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts by Helen King

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

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?

The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AI by David Hajdu

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr

Barbarity at the Bataclan

A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light

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

Masters of Horror and Magic

The German folklorists who helped build a nation

For Want of Touch

The astonishing breadth of our passions

Environmentalism for Outsiders

The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism By Aaron Sachs

Peaceable Kingdom

The Medici Giraffe and Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power By Marina Belozerskaya

Domestic Insurrection

Rough Crossings: Britain, Slaves, and the American RevolutionBy Simon Schama /Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution By Joseph Glatthar and James Kirby Martin

Eclogues

Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer By Noel Perrin

The Mind-Brain Problem

Psychologist Jerome Kagan has always known that biology is only a partial solution

An Argument for Mind By Jerome Kagan

Worked Well with Others

Discovering the structure of DNA was not Francis Crick’s only important collaboration

Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code By Matt Ridley

Half-Brother to the World

The United States has been more like other nations than we like to think

A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History By Thomas Bender

African Renaissance?

Finding hope on a continent where many people see only despair

New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance By Charlayne Hunter-Gault

In Search of a Great Modernist

Do Proust’s final days illuminate his novel?

Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris By Richard Davenport-Hines

Trouble and Glory

How Martin Luther King became the defining figure of his era

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