Loving American Philosophy: A Testimony
/John Kaag's memoir of personal engagement with American philosophy demonstrates its ongoing vitality. Kenyon Gradert reviews.
Read MoreNo Further Arrests Have Been Made
/The serial killer who stalked the streets of London in 1888 and became immortal under the name Jack the Ripper is the subject of a sumptuous new collection of fact and fiction.
Read MoreThe bowl that one fills and fills
/What has not already been written about Virginia Woolf? A new critical biography offers ideas about how to read both her work and her life.
Read MoreRead, Write, Love
/When Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri abandons English for Italian, she learns as much about herself as about her new language.
Read MoreBook Review: Deepwater Horizon
/The explosion, fire, sinking, and oil spill of the Deepwater Horizon back in 2010 gets a definitive scholarly analysis.
Read MoreBook Review: Where Song Began
/The overflowing diversity of Australian bird life is the subject of Tim Low's captivating new book
Read MoreBook Review: Why Birds Matter
/Who can measure the worth of a nightingale's song? Why scientists can, you silly thing!
Read MoreShow Queens
/Two new books - a biography of one of Broadway's brightest stars and a memoir from one of its lesser lights - bring the world of American stage and screen vividly to life.
Read MoreSingle Occupancy, Lots of Sunlight, Water Included
/For a century, humans have been searching for any sign of extraterrestrial life, intelligent or otherwise. A new book tells the story of that quest - and keeps its geeky hope alive.
Read MoreMore sayable than you think
/Carolin Emcke, a German social critic, continues the debate: does the holocaust demand silence? Andrew Brower Latz reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: ADHD Nation
/A hard-hitting new book exposes the widespread misdiagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Read MoreBook Review: The World of Poldark
/The companion book to the 2015 production of "Poldark" turns out to be more than just a pretty face
Read MoreBook Review: The Fifty-Year Mission
/On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Star Trek gets a definitive oral history.
Read MoreSuffer the Little Children
/According to a new book, not only did God design life, but deep down inside, we all know it. Steve Donoghue remains unconverted.
Read MoreLooking Back: Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, and Robert Frank in New York City
/Diane Arbus’s photographs are weird. Their subjects are weird. She herself was weird. A new exhibit takes us back to the origins of that strangeness –and asks what it says to us now.
Read MorePatricide Deferred
/Stuart Jeffries has written the first truly accessible account of the Frankfurt School. Robert Minto reviews.
Read More“Just Call Her ‘Tailleferre’”
/Even today, women composers still struggle for recognition. Michael Johnson explores the life and work of the unjustly forgotten Germaine Tailleferre.
Read MoreKeeping the Faith, Keeping the Feast
/The masterful essays in Gregory Wolfe's The Operation of Grace range from Mel Gibson to Thomas More, from Annie Dillard to Christopher Hitchens. Martyn Wendell Jones reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: Franz Liszt
/A new single-volume biography captures the oversized life of legendary composer and pianist Franz Liszt
Read MoreSummer Reading 2016 - Literary Journeys
/This year in our annual Summer Reading feature, our writers recommend favorite books that take us on journeys - through time, around the world, or just out of ourselves.
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