Household Words

Do Epigraphs Matter?

Quiet Genius—The Work of Joseph Cornell and Jess

The Storyteller—Thomas Jefferson’s Political Calculations

In Vogue—The Life and Times of the Fashion Editor

Rebel Without a Cause—A Narrow Approach to the American Revolution

Fever Dreams—Investigating the Memoir

Poison Ivy—The Ups and Downs of Affirmative Action

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