The Once and Future World

Award-winning ecology writer J.B. MacKinnon encourages the practice of “rewilding,” or restoring nature to what it once was, in a hopeful treatise on reversing the human impact on the environment.

On the Brink

October 14:  “I think that, by and large, there are these two broad alternatives: One, the quick strike. The other, to alert our allies and Mr. Khrushchev that there is an utterly serious crisis in the making here,…”  

Hand over Heart

October 12: “The words of the Pledge have inspired millions, but they have also been used to coerce and intimidate, to compel conformity, and to silence dissent.”  

Brother Kemal

25 years after Happy Birthday, Turk!, Jakob Arjouni’s Turkish private eye Kemal Keyankaya returns to his former home of Frankfurt – where a new murder investigation case leads him into a vengeful web of deceit in the German art and publishing...

Wonder Women

Subtitled “Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection,” this sharp look into the role of women in the workplace was written by the current president of Barnard College.