Code: The Hidden Language Review: How Computers Really Work
Petzold builds a working computer in your head, from flashlights and relays to a CPU, [...]
The God of the Woods Review: A Literary Mystery in the Adirondacks
A richly layered literary mystery about a girl missing from a summer camp. It's slow [...]
The Road Review: Bleak, Spare and Impossible to Forget
McCarthy's bleakest novel is also his most tender: a spare, devastating father-and-son story that rewards [...]
Stumbling on Happiness Review: Why We Can’t Predict What We’ll Enjoy
Gilbert's witty tour of why we misjudge what will make us happy is sharp and [...]
The Kite Runner Review: A Moving but Melodramatic Redemption Story
Hosseini's story of friendship, betrayal and guilt in Afghanistan is gripping and emotional, but its [...]
On the Origin of Species Review: One Long Argument That Still Holds
Darwin's case for natural selection remains a model of patient scientific argument, though its Victorian [...]
The Secret Review: Pretty Packaging, No Science
Byrne's law-of-attraction bestseller hides a little useful gratitude advice under a core claim that is [...]
Presence Review: Kind Advice Built on Shaky Power-Pose Science
Warm, readable advice on confidence under pressure, undermined by its reliance on power-posing research that [...]
Your Money or Your Life Review: Spending Measured in Hours Lived
A thoughtful, life-changing programme that recasts money as life energy; the tracking steps are brilliant, [...]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Review: Slow Start, Great Heroine
A superb cold-case puzzle bolted to a financial thriller and carried by Lisbeth Salander; bloated [...]
The Satanic Verses Review: The Novel Behind the Fatwa
Rushdie's sprawling novel about two Indian migrants is inventive and often funny but frequently exhausting, [...]
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing Review: Buy the Haystack
Bogle's short, forceful case for low-cost index funds is the clearest explanation of why costs [...]