Books
John Hersey emerges in this book as a disciplined journalist who held steadfast to an admirably singular goal.
This memoir offers an invaluable, broad look at intellectual Russia before and after the revolutions of 1917.
Award-winning author and critic Fiona MacCarthy is out to change wrong-headed perceptions of Walter Gropius in her biography. And she succeeds.
The Ruins of Ani illuminates one of those rare places that leaves visitors feeling they might have to dust off the word mystical to describe the experience.
The essays here give readers an eyewitness glimpse into mid-century queer life will intrigue (if not shock) younger LGBT+ people.
The Club is an entertaining and absorbing journey to another century, when the art of communication and the spirit of thoughtful engagement attracted men and women of acute sensibilities.
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America provides an exciting, if quicksilver, tour through intellectual history.
Coders had nothing in their intellectual toolbox that would help them understand people.
This consistently interesting novel adds an unforgettable dimension to an historical event about which we thought we knew all there was to know.

Arts Remembrance: Sonny Rollins, Jazz’s ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ Dies at 95