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

A Poet of the Soil

The legacy of a writer who struggled with his celebrity

The Letters of Seamus Heaney selected and edited by Christopher Reid

Morals, Meaning, and Nonsense

Ethical inquiry requires lived experience, not just logical examination

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman

Different People, Different Stories

On the complexities of lumping psychiatric patients into categories

he Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind by Noga Arikha

More Than a ‘Mere Echo’

English versions of foreign literature must stand on their own

Translating Myself and Othersby Jhumpa Lahiri

What a Long, Strange Trip It Was

The explosive writer who created worlds alien and mundane

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhysby Miranda Seymour

She Was the Toast of the World

The dramas and diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

A Whale of a Story

The parallel lives of   Moby-Dick’s creator and the historian who rescued him from obscurity

Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Aaron Sachs

California Scheming

Has one of the 20th century’s greatest unsolved crimes finally been cracked?

Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a Universityby Richard White

Subatomic Inspiration

The enigmatic thinker behind the Large Hadron Collider

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close

From Counterculture to Culture

How a teenage rebel rose to the summit of British literary life

The Birth of the Egghead Paperback

How one very young man changed the course of publishing and intellectual life in America

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