FDR, Fiorello La Guardia and rebuilding New York City during the New Deal.

How did a man who got so many things wrong become an intellectual celebrity in his own lifetime?

Frustrated, stubborn, committed to bad science, was Louis Agassiz anything other than a laughingstock?

On a Farther Shore captures the conservationist’s deep sense of geologic time and the forces of evolution.

In his writing and life, Thomas Bernhard led a charge in the opposite direction. His publisher always broke his fall.

A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions.

The unconventional story of three women and their unconventional lives in the early twentieth century.

In The Passage of Power, Robert Caro shows that LBJ’s brilliance as a politician lay not in his idealism but his opportunism.

The Partisan is a weak account of the career and legal thinking of a conservative and obstreperous chief justice.