Book Reviews Archives - The American Scholar (original) (raw)
Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
By Anne Matthews | Thursday, December 5, 2024
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson | Monday, December 2, 2024
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine
Ideology as Anatomy
How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives
By Sierra Bellows | Monday, December 2, 2024
Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Partsby Helen King
The Creator’s Code
Are humans alone in their ability to make art?
By Evelyn McDonnell | Monday, December 2, 2024
The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AIby David Hajdu
All Talk
Ease of communication will not save us
By Sam Kean | Monday, December 2, 2024
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apartby Nicholas Carr
Barbarity at the Bataclan
A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light