Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
By Anne Matthews Thursday, December 5, 2024
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Monday, December 2, 2024
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
By Sierra Bellows Monday, December 2, 2024
Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts by Helen King
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, December 2, 2024
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?
By Evelyn McDonnell Monday, December 2, 2024
The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AI by David Hajdu
Barbarity at the Bataclan
A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light
By Charles Trueheart Monday, December 2, 2024
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
By Tim Carman Thursday, November 7, 2024
Masters of Horror and Magic
The German folklorists who helped build a nation
By Anne Matthews Friday, November 1, 2024
A Poet of the Soil
The legacy of a writer who struggled with his celebrity
By Richard Tillinghast Friday, September 27, 2024
The Letters of Seamus Heaney selected and edited by Christopher Reid
Order Amid Chaos
A poet-scientist considers the imponderables of existence
By Sam Kean Monday, February 15, 2021
Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings by Alan Lightman
Cultural or Criminal?
How to explain Texas’s hunger for executions
By Lincoln Caplan Monday, February 8, 2021
Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty by Maurice Chammah
Family Secrets
A writer’s personal quest to expose a mass murderer who escaped punishment
By Charles Trueheart Monday, February 1, 2021
The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
Outbreaks and Outcomes
Plagues thrive on more than just pathogens
By Graeme Wood Monday, December 21, 2020
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of Historyby Paul Farmer
Figuring Out Our Fourth Estate
Can democracy survive in the absence of agreed-upon facts?
By Scott Stossel Thursday, December 10, 2020
An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Pressby Stephen Bates
Earning Our Daily Bread
Did early humans really have it easier than we do?
By Ellen Ruppel Shell Monday, December 7, 2020
Work: A Deep History, From the Stone Age to the Age of Robotsby James Suzman
Native Wisdom
A celebration of the rich spiritual imagination of tribal peoples
By Donald Worster Monday, December 7, 2020
Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Landby N. Scott Momaday
Power to the People
Looking back on a decade of revolutionary change
By Jason Sokol Monday, December 7, 2020
The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rightsby Thomas C. Holt
Redefining Women’s Work
The relief of suffering was one means to a great end
By Danielle Ofri Monday, December 7, 2020
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women—and Women to Medicineby Janice P. Nimura
Market Morality
The divine underpinnings of Western prosperity
By Michael Shermer Monday, December 7, 2020
Religion and the Rise of Capitalismby Benjamin M. Friedman
