Michael Lewis explores the global economic crisis through the eyes of a financial disaster tourist -- and brings back a collection of exotic stereotypes about the people and places that he visited. [09.Feb.12]
By Carolyn Kellogg
These stories are told with thick, evocative language that speaks of viscera and flowers and poetry and violence, from times distant and more recent, ringing individual and unique. [09.Feb.12]
This book reveals Stanley Ann to be an intellectually curious, passionate, idealistic, and unconventional woman whose sense of wonder and love shaped the lives of two children -- including the one that would become the 44th president of the United States. [08.Feb.12]
By Dan DeLuca
Ian Rankin's dialogue rings true; a sense of life as actually lived, and the lessons to be learned — or not — from history, all framed in an engrossing story never told hurriedly, but always well-paced. [08.Feb.12]
Two neuroscientists show how magicians exploit our brains' cognitive process to fool us. [07.Feb.12]
By Patt Morrison
The thread Sally Bedell Smith follows is how the monarchy has had to embrace its own Darwinian version of flexibility; never ahead of the times but also trying not to be fatally far behind them. [07.Feb.12]
When Hunter S. Thompson began writing for Rolling Stone magazine, he had already developed his distinct voice and highly recognizable style, but at Rolling Stone, he perfected it. [06.Feb.12]
By David L. Ulin
In Koonchung Chan's landscape, government doesn’t need to suppress unpleasant history; we do it ourselves, every day, simply by not paying close enough attention to the facts at hand. [06.Feb.12]
