A list from GQ: The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen Because: Let’s be real, he wrote two of the very best books (Freedom’s the other) of the millennium—or, if you’re guzzling haterade, at least the two best books on, among other things, family, anti-anxiety drugs, marriage, fate, songbirds, and Minnesota. The Human Stain — Philip Roth [...]
Book Recommendations
The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Some of the interesting non-fiction includes: BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. By Katherine Boo. (Random House, $27.) This extraordinary moral inquiry into life in an Indian slum shows the human [...]
Tyler Cowen is a fabulous source of reading material. Here are his best non-fiction books of 2012. Haiti: The Aftershocks of History A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country’s devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history. Coming Apart: The State of White [...]
What we’re reading says a lot about who we are – or who we want to be. In a new feature in the Globe and Mail, Jane Mount asks 100 writers, artists, and foodies to describe what the books that inspire them. I wanted to highlight Malcolm Galdwell’s and Jennifer Egan’s. First up is Gladwell: [...]
Ok, so you’ve seen the nine books Bill Gates is Reading this summer. Gates has some pretty smart friends and they were kind enough to share what they were reading this summer too. ****** Vinod Khosla is one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems,and founder of the firm Khosla Ventures, which focuses on venture investments [...]
I always find it interesting to see what smart people are reading. Here is a peak at what Bill Gates is reading this summer. The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker Gates writes, “I’m absolutely nuts about (this book.) … Pinker makes the case that over time, humans have become much less violent [...]
I mentioned Clayton Christensen’s new book How Will You Measure Your Life? onto my summer reading list. Here is an excerpt: The Trap of Marginal Thinking In the late 1990s, Blockbuster dominated the movie rental industry in the United States. It had stores all over the country, a significant size advantage, and what appeared to [...]
It’s Memorial Day weekend, which means summer is here. If you haven’t already decided on your summer reading list, here is a curated list of multi-disciplinary books that can help fill your brain. Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences Nassim Taleb reviews this book, offering the following: “I read this [...]
