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3. Michael Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets . Deirdre McCloskey had a good review of that book here .
2. Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 , already out in the UK not yet out in the US.
1. John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead: Essays . I enjoyed this one too.
I am thus a little nervous when Ben Goldacre entitles his recent book Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients . (I have a UK copy, and it is due out in the U.S. this February.) I do in fact agree with Goldacre’s portrait of a sector wracked with massive corruption and shoddy scientific standards. And I see many aspects of this book as deserving an “A” or “A+” rating, which I would not hand out lightly. But I won’t continue down that track, because I suspect the book ...
I quite liked this book , which is by Jon Meacham. Here is the bit best suited to MR :
The TNR essay is here , prompted by the publication of Angus Burgin’s The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Great Depression . Excerpt:
That is the new book by Charles Morris and the subtitle is The First American Industrial Revolution . Excerpt:
Alice Munro, Dear Life: Stories . I can confidently put this on my list without having read it yet.
Peter Sis, The Conference of the Birds . Mostly illustrated, beautiful in any case.
Alonso Cueto, The Blue Hour .
Robert D. Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography .
Michael Dirda, On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling .
Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 .
Laurent Dubois, Haiti: The Aftershocks of History .
Day Night Day Night (from five years ago, but a real stunner, underrated and a wonderful study of Nudge of top of everything else)
Samsara (makes sense on a big screen only, I suspect)
Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry
Margaret
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Take This Waltz
Circo , Mexican circus movie
Your Sister’s Sister (Straussian)
The Raid: Redemption (better Indonesian martial arts you will not see)
The Three Stooges
The Dictator