Book Reviews

In a newly expanded version of their book, The Bankers’ New Clothes, Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig demystify banking and expose how current financial regulatory practices enrich bankers while increasing the...

Claire Bishop’s new book explores the impact of digital culture on post-1990s contemporary art – do we still have the patience? ‘Attention’, in art historian Claire Bishop’s deft examination of...

Anthony Fauci's memoir reaches back to his boyhood in Brooklyn, New York, and carries through decades of caring for critically ill patients, navigating the whirlpools of Washington politics, and behind-the-scenes...

As an algorithm alternative, I can offer that if you liked Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows” and Jenny Odell’s “How to Do Nothing,” you’ll probably be interested in “Filterworld” as well....

Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the PresentBy Shaun S. Nichols378 pages, Oxford University Press IT’S RARE FOR a work of academic history to brim...

In 2019, Julia Phillips published a celebrated novel called “Disappearing Earth,” set on a remote Russian peninsula called Kamchatka.It’s not a place many Western readers were likely to have heard...

At the start of 1900, 10 days into the new century, a 17-year-old James Joyce delivered a lecture to the Literary and Historical Society at University College Dublin. His topic:...

NINETEEN STEPS, by Millie Bobby Brown with Kathleen McGurlOn the evening of Wednesday, March 3, 1943, 173 men, women and children lost their lives descending the steps — 19 of...

Fiction 'Thisis Why We Lied' by Karin SlaughterWill Trent, a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in the US, has surprised his new wife Dr Sara Linton, a...

Fox spirits are having a moment in fiction right now, in books such as Yangsze Choo’s “The Fox Wife.” In Asian cultures, these mischievous shape-shifters are venerated but also viewed...