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
Words Preserved Against a Day of Fear
Remembering Joseph Brodsky
By Peter Filkins Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Feminism’s First Think Tank
The very different women of the Radcliffe Institute’s inaugural class
By Sandra M. Gilbert Wednesday, May 27, 2020
The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960sMaggie Doherty
The Beauty of Fluid Motion
How the future became fashionable
By Virginia Postrel Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion by Vanessa R. Schwartz
Farm to Fable
How a now-forgotten writer changed American agriculture
By Tim Carman Monday, May 11, 2020
The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolutionby Stephen Heyman
War by Other Means
Subverting governments with lies is nothing new
By James Gibney Monday, March 2, 2020
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfareby Thomas Rid
Image Was Everything
A new biography of the seminal pop artist of the 20th century
By Meryle Secrest Monday, March 2, 2020
Warholby Blake Gopnik
Not Quite Forgotten
The unheralded success ofa fine American novelist
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, March 2, 2020
Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stoneby Madison Smartt Bell
Making Their Voices Heard
The story behind passage of the 19th Amendment
By Nancy Isenberg Monday, March 2, 2020
Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Voteby Ellen Carol DuBois
Poet of the Newsroom
A journalist with the unteachable gift of making you read on
By Henry Allen Monday, March 2, 2020
Final Draft: The Collected Work of David Carredited by Jill Rooney Carr
Heaven and the Heretic
A brilliant scientist whose life is a cautionary tale
By Sam Kean Monday, March 2, 2020
Galileo and the Science Deniersby Mario Livio
