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Julien Pacaud Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris
The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it.
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Simon & Schuster Brain Surgery, Up Close
Watching a neurosurgeon at work is awe- and cringe-inducing.
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Arsh Raziuddin The ‘Female Byron’
The celebrity poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon mesmerized a 19th-century public with hints of dark secrets.
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Viking What Medical School Doesn’t Teach About Death
A palliative-care doctor learns the language of suffering and the limits of medical control.
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Denise Nestor John Roberts’s Biggest Test Is Yet to Come
The chief justice writes fiercely conservative opinions, yet champions the Court’s political independence. How will he respond to a constitutional crisis?
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Christian Northeast The Bitter Origins of the Fight Over Big Government
What the battle between Herbert Hoover and FDR can teach us
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Najeebah Al-Ghadban Hollywood’s Secret History of Sexuality
David Thomson’s fascinating, and frustrating, tour of gay subversion and female oppression in American movies
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Antoine Maillard A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves
A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males.
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Jack Mitchell / Getty Wes Anderson Is Under Edward Gorey’s Spell
He was a writer-artist ahead of his time, but Tim Burton, Lemony Snicket, and American culture have finally caught up.
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Bijou Karman The Irony of Modern Feminism’s Obsession With Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A new biography squares the decorous legal figure with the feminist gladiator.
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Hanna Barczyk Sam Lipsyte’s Lame Send-up of a Guru and His Acolytes
In Hark, the characters are distracted, and their author veers between satire and sincerity.
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FSG Riveting Stories About Restless Wanderers
Chris Power’s debut collection, Mothers, reveals that maternity is an unsettling journey.
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Ian Wright; photo by David Harrison; courtesy of ... The Haunting Last Letters of Sylvia Plath
As tragedy approaches, she is stricken, broken—and at the height of her artistic powers.
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Graywolf Everything Under Is a Dark and Mesmerizing Story About Fate
The 27-year-old author, Daisy Johnson, pulls off several marvels at once in her debut novel, which made the Man Booker Prize shortlist.
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Arsh Raziuddin The Confounding Truth About Frederick Douglass
His champions now span the ideological spectrum, but left and right miss the tensions in his views.
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Xia Gordon The Personal Cost of Black Success
Two new memoirs trace their authors’ rise into the meritocratic elite, confronting pernicious myths and brutal realities along the way.
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Catapult A Literary Companion for Insomniacs
Marina Benjamin’s new memoir aims to soothe the sleepless.
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Beth Hoeckel Women Are Furious. Now What?
In her new book, Rebecca Traister invokes rage to unify women in a battle against men. But being mad can prove divisive, too.
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Jake Foreman How to Live Better, According to Nietzsche
John Kaag’s fascinating new book about the German thinker seeks to tether philosophy back to the mess of daily experience.
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The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Casts an Unlikely Spell
Nicolai Houm’s third novel unspools the mystery of a writer who abandons fiction and winds up alone on the top of a mountain in Norway.
