About a decade ago, acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville wrote the first in a series of literary crime novels under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. Set in 1950s Dublin, the novels, featuring pathologist Dr. Quirke and his sidekick Detective Hackett, were surprising best sellers. Emboldened by his ... [Continue Reading]
Boomerang by Michael Lewis
If you are interested in the European financial crisis or merely a student of human behavior, I recommend Michael Lewis’s book Boomerang. Lewis’s forte is telling a complex story largely through profiles of a few outrageous or misunderstood participants. He did it with baseball (Moneyball), the ... [Continue Reading]