Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

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

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts by Helen King

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

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?

The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AI by David Hajdu

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr

Barbarity at the Bataclan

A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light

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

Masters of Horror and Magic

The German folklorists who helped build a nation

A Poet of the Soil

The legacy of a writer who struggled with his celebrity

The Letters of Seamus Heaney selected and edited by Christopher Reid

Survival Situation

The debate over evolution and its discoverer

Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwinby Howard Markel

The Rescuer

In search of the Underground Railroad’s legendary conductor

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free Peopleby Tiya Miles

Facing the Facts

An antiquated take on antiquity

The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient Worldby Daisy Dunn

Numbers Game

A novelist’s indictment of how we account for our history

Question 7by Richard Flanagan

Born to Be Wild

One founding family’s centuries-long journey

American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nationby John Kaag

Uncontacted

Indigenous civilizations thrived long before Europeans showed up

Native Nations: A Millennium in North Americaby Kathleen DuVal

Acting Out

One tortuous journey from stage to screen

Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?by Philip Gefter

Hometown Heroes

What if the goal is not to make it out of the neighborhood?

There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascensionby Hanif Abdurraqib

Thought Experimenter

Will AI really make our world better?

The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robotsby Daniela Rus and Gregory Mone

Invisible Ink

Giving center page to an era’s forgotten writers

Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissanceby Ramie Targoff

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