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...Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx. Winner of this year's National Book Award, Proulx's rambunctious second novel zeroes in on a coastal Newfoundland community coming apart economically and socially when the fishing and seal hunting industries fail. The author has a sharp ear for regional speech and a barbed and quirky style that can be both startling and humorous...
...Last Brother by Joe McGinnis. Who is this character with a famous name and a mind marinated in platitudes? Certainly not pure fiction, which might have been convincing, but a lifeless creature born out of New Journalism and the checkout-counter culture. Bad novel and bad biography, The Last Brother gives twice as little for the money...
...came from a deceptively simple premise. "We decided to listen to our patients," says Abhay. That may sound obvious, but in 1986, when the pair returned to their poor, central Indian hometown of Gadchiroli with master's degrees in public health from Johns Hopkins University, it was a novel approach...
...global economy are permitted their pastimes. Greenspan loves to roam well beyond the facts for intellectual stimulation. He was deeply influenced by Rand's classic Atlas Shrugged, which helped shape his view that individuals acting in self-interest make for fair and honest markets. Although Bernanke wrote an unpublished novel in his younger days, his reading list swings to the pragmatic. He spent a recent vacation with a book about astronomy and has read volumes about Milton Friedman, whom he regards as the 20th century's greatest economist for his arguments on the power of free markets...
...bookseller is zeroing in on the niche markets of Jakarta's middle classes and catering to tastes once served only by retailers in nearby Singapore. With three stores in the Indonesian capital, Aksara (the name means "letter" in Sanskrit) also encourages shoppers to simply hang out and browse-a novel experience in Jakarta...