On a perfectly ordinary day in October, with no warning, millions of people around the world simply disappear. They come from all backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, religions. They are parents, spouses, children, friends. They are gone, with no explanation, and the question is: How do the people who are left behind — the “leftovers” — deal [...]

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In Michael Fischman’s book, Stumbling Into Infinity: An Ordinary Man in the Sphere of Enlightenment, it becomes apparent that Fischman is neither ordinary nor stumbling. While he emphasizes that this is his personal story, he has adeptly written a debut nonfiction work that is multiple books at once, layered one beneath the other and bound [...]

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Written by former child star/current Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Kyle Richards, Life Is Not A Reality Show: Keeping It Real with the Housewife Who Does It All is part life story, part self-help book, part relationship and style tips, and something Real Housewives fans will probably like very much. The book is [...]

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Google Inc.grills “zombie hordes” of job applicants with fiendish puzzles, and China spurns “suicidal” economic shock therapy in two of our favorite business books of late. Here’s a list of recommended titles. “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure,” by Tim Harford (Farrar, Straus Giroux). We all struggle to accept our failures and cut our [...]

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A second consideration: How close are you to a dictionary? Such words as “nubiferously” and “colaphize” lie strewn across your path, not to mention such phrases as “Parisian post-structuralists and their caravanserai of prolix and impenetrable evangels and dogmatically zealous acolytes.” That hunk of text repeats itself at least twice by my count, but as [...]

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