Elizabeth Stice reviews Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America by Chris Murphy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2026)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Being Reasonable: The Case for a Misunderstood Virtue by Krista Lawlor (Harvard University Press, 2026)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One by Stewart Brand (Stripe Press, 2025)

Lydia Kuerth reviews Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better by David Epstein (Riverhead Books, 2026)

Joel Harold Tannenbaum reviews Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York by Dylan Gottlieb (Harvard University Press, 2026)

Turkmenistan, Where on Earth is That? by Tam Macklin (Rowanvale Books, 2025)

Is Your Work Worth It? How to Think About Meaningful Work by Christopher Wong Michaelson and Jennifer Totsi-Kharas (Hachette, 2024)

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara (Optimism Press, 2022)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America’s Birds by James H. McCommons (St. Martin’s Press, 2026)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future by Joel J. Miller (Prometheus Books, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans by Robert J. Sampson (Harvard University Press, 2026)

Christian McNamara reviews If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares (Little, Brown and Company, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination by Mark Vernon (Hurst & Co., 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth (Thesis, 2025)

Michael Jimenez reviews The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne (Penguin, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron by Roger Shattuck, with introduction by Jed Perl (New York Review of Books, 2025).

A “From the Stacks” piece by Joel Tannenbaum about DREAMS ABOUT H.M. THE QUEEN and other members of the Royal Family by Brian Masters.

Don McCulloch reviews The Power of Parting: Finding Peace and Freedom Through Family Estrangement by Eamon Dolan (Penguin Random House, 2025).

Kimberly Bain reviews Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick by Murray Carpenter (MIT Press, 2025)

Kimberly Bain reviews There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone (Penguin Random House, 2025)

Geoffrey Reiter reviews Jane Austen’s Darkness by Julia Yost (Wiseblood Books, 2024)