A noted feminist social critic looks back on her long friendship with the great Betty Friedan.

An invigorating new study of the real presence of the divine in the mundane workings of organized religion

Abandoned by the West and battered by the Islamic caliphate, the eastern Roman Empire shrank and withdrew but did not fall - a new history asks why

When smallpox struck the city of Boston in 1721, battle lines were drawn over how to deal with it - and strange alliances formed

At the center of a lively, personality-driven new book about the twelfth century is the contentious family of King Henry II

A lovely new volume offers a selection of Henry David Thoreau's heartfelt writings about flowers

A sympathetic new biography of the poet Wallace Stevens