Examining the data to determine the degree to which our childhood personalities and behaviors predict our adult selves.
Bookshelf
A bracing travelogue by a culinary forager seeking rare, undomesticated, unadulterated foods in the rapidly disappearing wild.
How the myths of scarcity and security haunt U.S. energy policy and keep it tied to the puppet strings of the House of Saud.
Is the ‘special relationship’ between the U.S. and the U.K. a dream from the past—or, post-Brexit, Britain’s only way forward?
J.B.S. Haldane was brilliant, volatile and ethically purblind, doing both great work and great damage.
How a dynasty lasted for a thousand years against the odds—and shaped Europe in the bargain.
From the author, most recently, of ‘Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.’
Are Masons really the shadowy unseen watchmakers who set the clock of history, as some conspiracists claim?
The real-life tale of an itinerant American collector of thrills, spills and sensations.
The conclusion of the Scottish novelist’s Seasonal Quartet, four breathlessly timely books that capture, with a shocking immediacy, the way we live now.
In 1944 Robert Conquest was sent behind enemy lines, an episode recorded in some of his poems.
As a serial bomber bedevils New York City, Robert Pobi’s mathematically gifted hero Dr. Lucas Page searches for patterns amid the chaos.
Vesper Stamper’s novel for 12+ readers conjures a 14th-century convent through the eyes of a young woman who experiences synesthesia.
These classic novels feel more textured, more nuanced, more lived-in than the famous films made from them.
The Beatles’ final year was silly, crazy and chaotic, but the music they made then is still with us—as are tales of the Fab Four.
World War II engendered a shared middle-class culture that permeated America and reduced the distance between rich and poor.
Modern liberalism, mistaking intellectual capacity for intrinsic worth, can’t abide the idea that some students are brighter than others.
Appalled by the conditions on the Lower East Side, Lillian Wald resolved to live among its residents and help them on terms of fellowship.
A European politico argues that American policy making—for good and ill—was always about creating new and better fantasies.
All of America fell for his warm, close-grained baritone, but jazz aficionados swooned over his piano playing.
