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
Shell Shock and Awe
The enduring terror of the trenches
By Henry Allen Thursday, June 1, 2023
Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World Warby Charles Glass
Notes and Outtakes
Good writing never gets old
By Robert Wilson Thursday, June 1, 2023
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1by John McPhee
Someone’s Gotta Do It
On transforming monotony into meaning
By Lydia Moland Thursday, June 1, 2023
Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Livingby John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle
Death in Drohobych
A new biography of a Polish literary master
By Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough Monday, May 1, 2023
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of Historyby Benjamin Balint
Our Pragmatic Present
There is no prescribed meaning or purpose to our lives—and that’s okay
By John Kaag Monday, March 27, 2023
Mind in Nature: John Dewey, Cognitive Science, and a Naturalistic Philosophy for Livingby Mark Johnson and Jay Schulkin
From Mandate to Nation State
How a failed Arab rebellion ensured Israel’s survival
By Randy Rosenthal Monday, March 6, 2023
Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by Oren Kessler
Doors of Perception
The often unreliable ways we interpret reality
By Natalie Angier Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Sensesby Ashley Ward
Culture Shock
The hidden history of reverse colonization
By Ilan Stavans Wednesday, March 1, 2023
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europeby Caroline Dodds Pennock
Life at the Bottom
It’s not just the rich who victimize the poor
By Nancy Isenberg Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
The Center Cannot Hold
A kaleidoscopic journey through a divided country
By Elizabeth D. Samet Wednesday, March 1, 2023
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil Warby Jeff Sharlet
