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
Beneath the Powdered Wig
Reinterpreting the life of our trendiest Founding Father
By Nancy Isenberg Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons From a Misunderstood Founder by Christian Parenti
Varieties of Experience
Culture rewires our brains and shapes how we think
By T. M. Luhrmann Wednesday, September 23, 2020
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrichby Joseph Henrich
Bugging Out
The buzzing, crawling creatures we would be lost without
By Natalie Angier Thursday, September 17, 2020
The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern Worldby Edward Melillo
Creeping Illiberalism
A bleak account of the West’s slide toward tyranny
By Charles Trueheart Monday, July 27, 2020
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianismby Anne Applebaum
Beyond Classification
One writer’s journey into the labyrinth of political and bureaucratic obfuscation
By Michael Sherry Thursday, July 23, 2020
Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Actby Nicholson Baker
How We Came Together
America purchased its sense of itself at a high price
By Jill Leovy Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhoodby Colin Woodard
A Lifelong Habit of Being
Exploring a fundamentally ambiguous attribute
By Elizabeth D. Samet Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Character: The History of a Cultural Obsessionby Marjorie Garber
Our Feathered Friends
They aren’t the intellectual lightweights we take them for
By Sy Montgomery Tuesday, June 2, 2020
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Thinkby Jennifer Ackerman
The People’s Gallery
A collection that is the brightest light in a city full of them
By Anka Muhlstein Tuesday, June 2, 2020
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museumby James Gardner
Mysterious Inheritance
A new biography of the founder of population genetics
By David Brown Tuesday, June 2, 2020
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldaneby Samanth Subramanian
