Books Are a Star’s Best Friend
The little-known reading habits of a Hollywood icon
By Noah Isenberg Thursday, May 28, 2026
Marilyn and Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe by Gail Crowther
Who Is Thinking?
The quest to discover the answer to an age-old question
By T. M. Luhrmann Thursday, May 7, 2026
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness By Michael Pollan
An Israeli-Palestinian Peace Encounter
Under raining bombs, is healing conceivable?
By Erik Gleibermann Wednesday, April 15, 2026
How the West Won
A great Texas novelist whose message succumbed to myth
By Steven G. Kellman Friday, April 10, 2026
Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry By David Streitfeld
Words, Words, Words
How artists turned the canon against congressional inquisitors
By Brooke Kroeger Thursday, April 2, 2026
A Treacherous Secret Agent: How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare by Marjorie Garber
Lede-ing Ladies
How female foreign correspondents transformed journalism
By Anne Matthews Monday, March 16, 2026
Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World By Julia Cooke
An American Prophet of the Natural World
Celebrating the magical mundane
By John Kaag Thursday, March 5, 2026
The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams
The Great Decipherment
Decoding the story of a lost civilization
By Ilan Stavans Monday, March 2, 2026
The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya By David Stuart
Think, Again
Reckoning with the elegance of physical laws and the wonders of being alive
By John Kaag Monday, March 2, 2026
Traversal By Maria Popova
Family Trees
Threats to our woods are threats to us all
By Priscilla Long Monday, March 2, 2026
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World By Suzanne Simard
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
Swept Away
When Géricault painted The Raft of the Medusa, he immersed himself in his subject’s horrors
By Anthony Brandt Saturday, September 1, 2007
The Wreck of the Medusa By Jonathan Miles
