Saturday, September 27, 2014

The New York Times - Book Review

'Seven Bad Ideas'

By JEFF MADRICK
Reviewed by PAUL KRUGMAN
In "Seven Bad Ideas," Jeff Madrick argues that the failure of economists to address the 2008 financial crisis is rooted in decades of intellectual misconduct.


Also in the Book Review

Martin Wolf'The Shifts and the Shocks'

By MARTIN WOLF
Reviewed by FELIX SALMON
In "The Shifts and the Shocks," Martin Wolf proposes drastic measures to try to prevent another financial crisis.
Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker: By the Book

The author of "The Language Instinct," "The Blank Slate" and, most recently, "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century" has never gotten in trouble for reading a book. "Just for writing them."
·         By the Book: Archive

Bilal Tanweer'The Scatter Here Is Too Great'

By BILAL TANWEER
Reviewed by JESS ROW
An attack in Karachi reveals a web of lives connected by violence in this novel-in-stories.
Ecstasy and agony:

No Pain, No Game

By ROY BLOUNT Jr.
Has our passion for football made us blind to the sport's dark side?

Nayomi Munaweera'Island of a Thousand Mirrors'

By NAYOMI MUNAWEERA
Reviewed by NADIFA MOHAMED
Two families find themselves on opposite sides of Sri Lanka's civil war in this debut novel.
A driver can remain distracted for up to 15 seconds after sending a text.

'A Deadly Wandering'

By MATT RICHTEL
Reviewed by ROBERT KOLKER
A journalist examines a deadly accident and the risks of texting and driving.

'My Two Italies'

By JOSEPH LUZZI
Reviewed by CRAIG SELIGMAN
A son of Italian immigrants on his relationship with the ancestral homeland.

David Cronenberg'Consumed'

By DAVID CRONENBERG
Reviewed by JONATHAN LETHEM
David Cronenberg's debut novel centers on two journalists and their fascination with scandal and social media.

Audrey Magee

'The Undertaking'

By AUDREY MAGEE
Reviewed by LOUISA THOMAS
A first novel set in World War II Germany.

Louise Glück'Faithful and Virtuous Night'

By LOUISE GLUCK
Reviewed by PETER CAMPION
Many of the poems in Louise Glück's collection feature an aging painter confronting his own mortality.
E. M. Forster on the beach in Suffolk in 1949; Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears are in the background.

'Arctic Summer'

By DAMON GALGUT
Reviewed by THOMAS MALLON
Based on the life of E. M. Forster, this novel traces a struggle for liberation both on and off the page.
Crime

Letting Go

By MARILYN STASIO
"Darkness, Darkness," John Harvey's final novel in his series featuring Inspector Charlie Resnick, strikes an elegiac tone.
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