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
The Wanderer
How a Victorian novelist’s life and times inform our own
By Michela Wrong Monday, December 4, 2017
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global Worldby Maya Jasanoff
Bungle in the Jungle
A new biography considers what might have been in Indochina
By Charles Trueheart Monday, December 4, 2017
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnamby Max Boot
The Colonial Melting Pot
Six very different people in a war of liberation
By T. H. Breen Monday, December 4, 2017
Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedomby Russell Shorto
Paranoia Strikes Deep
What are we hiding from in our policed and gated communities?
By Jill Leovy Monday, December 4, 2017
Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracyby Elaine Tyler May
A Palate for the Finer Things
Pondering a father’s thirst for respectability
By Paul Lukacs Wednesday, November 29, 2017
The Wine Lover’s Daughter: A Memoirby Anne Fadiman
A Poet of Glamour and Chaos
Lady Lazarus rises again
By Sandra M. Gilbert Thursday, October 12, 2017
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940–1956 edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil
Triumph of the Underdog
A new biography offers a sympathetic portrait of Lincoln’s greatest general
By Richard Moe Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Grant by Ron Chernow
A Dream of a Writer
Peter Taylor’s stories reveal an artist immersed in the quotidian who rose to the complexities of the heart and psyche
By Ann Beattie Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Wave of Anguish
Could disobedience have saved a group of Japanese students?
By Adam Hochschild Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry
Metropolis Rising
How the Big Apple took its place among the world’s great cities
By Brooke Kroeger Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City From 1898 to 1919 by Mike Wallace
