NR PLUS Magazine The Believer’s Brain By Jonathan Leaf January 20, 2022 A review of The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life, by Lisa Miller.
NR PLUS Magazine Supreme Jurist By Jonathan Leaf October 25, 2018 Jonathan Leaf reviews John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court, by Richard Brookhiser.
NR PLUS Magazine A Wrong Turn for Drama By Jonathan Leaf February 2, 2018 Much of it reads like “automatic writing”: words randomly assembled.
NR PLUS Magazine Reconsidering August Wilson By Jonathan Leaf March 20, 2017 The film adaptation of August Wilson’s Fences, which is now in theaters, has brought its late author some well-deserved new accolades.
NR PLUS Magazine Huddled Masses By Jonathan Leaf August 29, 2016 What are the effects on families of living in a city of skyscrapers?
NR PLUS Magazine Holding Up a Mirror By Jonathan Leaf December 7, 2015 People know 18th-century London more from Hogarth’s drawings than from the work of any novelist. Indeed, the titles of his best-known picture series — “A Rake’s Progress” and “Gin Lane” ...