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
Thought Experiment
Exploring the evolutionary origins of our brains
By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Monday, December 7, 2020
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mindby Peter Godfrey-Smith
Satirist to the Galaxy
The war behind a writer’s words
By Anne Matthews Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941–1945edited by Edith Vonnegut
Indefensible Torture, Unfree Speech
What Censorship Kept America from Learning about the Futility of “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques”
By Lincoln Caplan Saturday, November 7, 2020
The Black Banners Declassified: How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11 by Ali Soufan with Daniel Freedman
Black America’s Tough-Minded Truth Teller
How an autobiography shaped the image of a civil rights icon
By Robert J. Norrell Monday, October 26, 2020
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
A Pioneering Appetite
The story of America’s first culinary celebrity
By Anne Matthews Monday, October 19, 2020
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James BeardJohn Birdsall
Verifiable Truths
The thinkers who tried to strip metaphysics from philosophy
By Gary Saul Morson Thursday, October 15, 2020
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna CircleDavid Edmonds
Saved By Accident
Only dumb luck has stood in the way of atomic annihilation
By Marc Ambinder Thursday, October 8, 2020
Gambling With Armageddonby Martin J. Sherwin
Sonic Geographer
The composer whose music bears witness to a planet in peril
By Sudip Bose Monday, October 5, 2020
Admired and Abhorred
The German composer whose legacy continues to confound
By Steven G. Kellman Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of MusicAlex Ross
A Mind on Fire
In his acclaimed trilogy of intellectual biographies, Robert D. Richardson sought to help us overcome the burden of the past
By Sam Gee Wednesday, September 23, 2020
