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New York Times - BooksOff the Shelf: ‘Fault Lines’ Concludes Global Economy Remains Vulnerable
Raghuram G. Rajan writes that systems and large historical forces were the primary drivers of recent global financial instability.
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Book Review - Four Fish - By Paul Greenberg
Even as Paul Greenberg lays out the grim and complicated facts about the ravaging of our seas, he manages to sound some hopeful notes about the ultimate fate of fish.
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Book Review - Memory Wall - By Anthony Doerr
These strange, beautiful tales all ask: What, if anything, will be preserved from time’s depredations?
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Book Review - Brilliant - The Evolution of Artificial Light - By Jane Brox
A history of the ways people have lighted their homes and paths, and of the social changes that have resulted.
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Book Review - Lives Like Loaded Guns - Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds - By Lyndall Gordon
A new biography of Emily Dickinson emphasizes her tumultuous family and examines eruptions emotional and poetic.
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Crime: Mystery Novels by Carl Hiaasen, Martin Walker, Peter Steiner and Lorenzo Carcaterra
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Book Review - The Surf Guru - By Doug Dorst
In these testosterone-rich yarns, Doug Dorst toys with structure and convention while investigating the quirks and offbeat occupations of his motley cast.
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Book Review - The Sisters From Hardscrabble Bay - By Beverly Jensen
In Beverly Jensen’s posthumous novel-in-stories, two sisters escape rural poverty and make their way in the world.
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Book Review - When London Was Capital of America - By Julie Flavell
A chapter of London’s — and North America’s — history: Before the Revolution, the metropolis was a magnet for colonists from across the Atlantic.
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Book Review - High Financier - The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg - By Niall Ferguson
A biography of the banker Siegmund Warburg, who built his empire in London after his flight from Nazi Germany.
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Book Review - When That Rough God Goes Riding - Listening to Van Morrison - By Greil Marcus
The rock critic Greil Marcus plumbs the work of Van Morrison, who found inspiration in Yeats and Joyce.
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Book Review - Furious Love - Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century - By Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger
A joint biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and their traveling circus of money, booze and mutual obsession.
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Book Review - The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno - By Ellen Bryson
In this first novel, a mysterious seductress who signs on as an attraction at P. T. Barnum’s museum enchants the resident thin man.
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Essay: Drink What You Know
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