How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest History of Economics”; Old Street; £14.99 There is no shortage of books ...
Dorothy Parker Last time I wrote about Maine author E.B. White who penned several popular children’s books and, in 1959, revised and expanded William Strunk Jr.’s popular little writing guide.
By Mattie Kahn A More Freewheeling Book Lives Inside Al Pacino’s Memoir From Shakespeare to Strindberg to “Scarface”: The actor remembers all of it and talks about some of it in “Sonny Boy.” ...
In “The Bible: A Global History,” Bruce Gordon chronicles the Christian Bible’s progression from a collection of ancient Hebrew and Greek texts—our word “Bible” is derived from the Gre ...