Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Laura Delano

Who’s to Say?
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A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels

Chapters and Verse

Looking for the poet between the lines

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry by Adam Plunkett

Once More, Without Feeling

Can a memoir be effective when it lacks any warmth?

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne

Electrons That Bind

The molecule at the center of everything

Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken

Food for Thought

A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats

How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food by Vaclav Smil

Splitting Our Sides

A new biography of a comedy pioneer

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation by Kenneth Turan

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

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

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

Sea Changes

Navigating the currents of midlife—and redefining home along the way

Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Yearsby Heidi Julavits

Family Tatters

A social experiment gone wrong

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Communeby Alexander Stille

Frontline Oracle

A new biography of America’s most beloved grunt reporter

The Soldier’s Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War IIby David Chrisinger

We Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet

After Covid-19, what might be next?

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemicby Emily Monosson

Don’t Forget Intuition

The art of doing science

In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systemsby Giorgio Parisi

Shell Shock and Awe

The enduring terror of the trenches

Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World Warby Charles Glass

Notes and Outtakes

Good writing never gets old

Tabula Rasa: Volume 1by John McPhee

Someone’s Gotta Do It

On transforming monotony into meaning

Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Livingby John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle

Death in Drohobych

A new biography of a Polish literary master

Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of Historyby Benjamin Balint

Our Pragmatic Present

There is no prescribed meaning or purpose to our lives—and that’s okay

Mind in Nature: John Dewey, Cognitive Science, and a Naturalistic Philosophy for Livingby Mark Johnson and Jay Schulkin

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