Books

What’s on your fall reading list? I am looking forward to diving into these interesting books: Knife by Salman Rushdie Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson The Elements of Marie Curie by […]

I just learned that one of my favorite novelists, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers, will be publishing a new book later this fall. For those who are unfamiliar with Powers’ work, it would be hard for me to describe what attracts me to his fiction. […]

I am looking forward to reading The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World by Nobel Prize-winning author William Nordhaus, who has a long career working with climate policy and economics. The book was published last year by Princeton […]

I recently had the opportunity to hear acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick speak about his career, the maritime history of colonial America, and his writing process. He also spoke about his recent release, Travels with George, which highlights the various locations our first president visited while […]

I just finished reading a book this week that I would highly recommend. It’s called What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society. Author Minouche Shafik, who was recently named as a board member of the Bill and Melinda Gates […]

I’ve been a big fan of Richard Powers’ work since I came upon Galatae 2.2 in graduate school. His books combine science and technology with keen observations on the human condition. His recent book, The Overstory, was his best yet. It changed how I viewed […]

I’m looking forward to reading Ronald C. White’s  latest book, Lincoln in Private. From the publisher: “From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses, a revelatory glimpse into the intellectual journey of our sixteenth president through his private notes to himself, explored together here for the first […]

I’m reading a very interesting book that tells an inside story of one of the titans of Wall Street. It’s called Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Life, written by Zachary Karabell. Here is the publisher’s description about Inside Money, “a sweeping […]

I am looking forward to reading Louis Menand’s latest book, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War. I really enjoyed his previous Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club. Here is the publisher’s summary of his new work. “The Cold War was not just […]