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

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

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

By Charles Trueheart | Monday, December 2, 2024

V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the Frenchby John Lambert