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November 5, 2023
Was there truly 'no exit' from humanity’s existential predicament, as Sartre posits in Huis-Close? Was the meaning of life a hellish nihilism? Such questions confronted intellectuals amidst the crisis of the Cold War that defined both the era of Existentialism. the decline of a front-rank philosopher to the status of a hired-gun propagandist for the communist bloc
April 17, 2023
In hardcover nonfiction, a look at research on aging and longevity — and, from the author of “At the Existentialist Café,” an exploration of the history of humanism. Rankings reflect sales for the week ended April 1.
April 12, 2023
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
April 2, 2023
In “Humanly Possible,” Bakewell brings her signature blend of wit and philosophical sophistication to the complex, sometimes contentious 700-year history of humanist thought.
March 29, 2023
Sarah Bakewell’s sweeping new survey of the philosophical tradition, “Humanly Possible,” says that putting your faith in human behavior means confronting complacency and nihilism — but it can be worth it.
March 24, 2023
A group portrait of humanists and freethinkers takes in figures from Pico della Mirandola to Bertrand Russell and beyond.
March 15, 2023
Humanly Possible, an epic, spine-tingling and persuasive work of history by Sarah Bakewell, traces 700 years of humanism
March 12, 2023
A book can be an accomplice in a coup against winter.
March 1, 2023
A haunting horror novel set a century ago in the American West, Eleanor Catton’s first novel in a decade, a Ukrainian war diary and much more.