Hold the Salt
Reconsidering an ancient city’s bad reputation
By Charles G. Salas Thursday, January 22, 2026
Carthage: A New History by Eve MacDonald
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
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
All Dolled Up
How American Girl transformed the doll world—and why millennials love it so
By Jayne Ross Thursday, November 30, 2023
Thought Experimenters
Making sense of a broken world
By Robert Zaretsky Monday, November 27, 2023
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Timesby Wolfram Eilenberger
The Late Bloomer
Reconstructing a private poet’s life
By N. S. Thompson Thursday, November 23, 2023
Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampittby Willard Spiegelman
Naturalists Unknown
Lives marked by discovery and erasure
By Perri Klass Thursday, November 16, 2023
Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Scienceby Catherine McNeur
Down and Out
A woman excised from her eminent husband’s story
By Steven G. Kellman Friday, October 27, 2023
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Lifeby Anna Funder
It’s All Greek to Her
The woman who brought mythology to the masses
By Amanda Kolson Hurley Friday, October 20, 2023
American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton by Victoria Houseman
Connect or Die
The high cost of going it alone
By Scott Stossel Thursday, October 5, 2023
This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativityby Richard Deming
To Get to the Other Side
Roads and the future of life on Earth
By Miranda Weiss Thursday, September 21, 2023
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb
Allergen Alert
When the back-to-school shopping list includes an EpiPen
By Sandra Beasley Monday, September 11, 2023
Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in Changing World by Theresa MacPhail
Myth, Mystery, and Contradiction
A journey through a region in search of itself
By Piotr Florczyk Monday, August 28, 2023
Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Landby Jacob Mikanowski
