Simon Maxwell Apter is assistant editor at Lapham's Quarterly, where he also runs the Web site. His commentaries and reviews have appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, The American Prospect, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post.
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In the follow-up to their 4-million-selling Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner fire yet another provocative salvo at... -
Patrick Radden Keefe's riveting new work of nonfiction, The Snakehead, explores the underworld of human smuggling that reached from China... -
You Are Here delves into the physiology and folklore of wayfinding. Alternating between scientific experiments and real-world examples, psychologist Colin...
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It's ironic that a New York Times economics reporter found himself drowning under his own subprime mortgage. But if it... -
A startup in 2003, MySpace last year earned almost $1 billion. Julia Angwin chronicles the rise of this colossus, the... -
Timed for the centennial of MI5 and MI6, Gordon Thomas' history of British intelligence teems with double agents, whistle-blowers and...
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The follow-up to his stingingly critical Iraq war history, Fiasco, Thomas Ricks' The Gamble details the men and maneuvers that...
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Oil, ego and economics mix in Bryan Burrough's chronicle of the spectacular rise and often sordid fall of Texas' wealthiest...
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Social scientist Luke Bergmann put himself in the story when he moved to Detroit to study the underground drug economy.... -
Philip Norman's exhaustive and artfully sketched new biography of John Lennon explores the split between a man who could be...
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Fossil fuels are damaging our economy and national security, in addition to altering the world's climate. A green revolution, says... -
George Bush and Dick Cheney are certain history will justify their actions. But a reading of these two books, The...