Green Piece—Barbara Kingsolver’s Eco Obsessions

Sister Act—Pippa Middleton’s Gauzy World

Not Quite Stories—Alice Munro’s Almost Autobiography

Purple Darkness: Poetry from the Taliban

East is East and West is West: Al Afghani, Tagore, and Qichao

When a Couplet Caught Fire—The Poetry of Adrienne Rich

The Myth of the Coach—Paterno and the Problem with College Sports

The Age of Adolescence

The Professor: Jill Lepore's Fatal Flaw

Poets, Protesters, and Proletarians—Oddballs of the Nineteenth Century

Sons and Mothers—The Disappointing End of Lois Lowry’s Giver Series

A Middlemarch for Middle America

The End of a Friendship and the Start of the Cold War

Room for Improvement—Emma Donoghue’s Limp Short Stories

Eat More Meat—Unfashionable Advice from a New Cookbook

Why IQs Rise

Why Democrats Need the White Working Class

P.S. VIP—What Exam Schools Offer

The Poet Politician—Chinua Achebe’s Civil War

Spy v. Spy: How a Double Agent Won D-Day for the Allies