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  • The revolution will be energized

    In "Power to the People," journalist Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran makes a case for markets, not governments, leading us to a green, energy-abundant future.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski February 13, 2004

  • When online advice columnists go bad

    In an excerpt from Lynn Harris' new novel, "Miss Media," a specialist in relationships has a hard time following her own rules.
    By Lynn Harris February 2, 2004

  • Drug money

    ImClone's Sam Waksal hawked his cancer drug at the intersection of Big Pharma and Wall Street. A new book tallies the cost of his deceit.
    By Andrew Leonard January 29, 2004

  • An economist for all seasons

    Joseph Stiglitz's new book explains what went right, and wrong, with "The Roaring Nineties."
    By Andrew Leonard October 16, 2003

  • A laptop in every knapsack

    Computers can spark a learning revolution, says the author of a new study of technology and education. But how will we pay for it?
    By Andrew Leonard October 1, 2003

  • Going for baroque

    Neal Stephenson's new "Quicksilver" takes a fantastical, circuitous tour of the 17th century in search of the roots of science and the nature of the universe.
    By Andrew Leonard September 24, 2003

  • Desperately seeking capitalism's soul

    William Greider has faith that we can inject morality into the free market. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but still, ya gotta believe.
    By Andrew Leonard September 16, 2003

  • The future was so bright

    Wired's techno-idealism jolted America before it flamed out. Gary Wolf's new book vividly recalls the magazine's wild and woolly saga, but leaves the big question hanging: Was it right?
    By Andrew Leonard July 7, 2003

  • Geek reads

    Growing up, all the kids -- black and white -- exiled me for being an obsessive reader. This year, I finally found three books that capture the black nerd experience.
    By Adrienne Crew June 27, 2003

  • Remembrance of Froggers past

    In the "Catalogue of Obsolete Entertainments," a fictional author evaluates the games of his youth for their ultimate historical and philosophical significance. An excerpt from "Lucky Wander Boy."
    By D. B. Weiss May 27, 2003

  • Would Hegel have played "Pac-Man"?

    "Lucky Wander Boy," a novel about a video gamer's quest for meaning, gives humorous insights into minds shaped by the Mario Bros.
    By Andrew Leonard May 27, 2003

  • Warning. Warning. Warning. Fatal error. Stop.

    Ethan Levin wasn't worried. Programming mistakes were inevitable. He'd fix it, and move on. An excerpt from Ellen Ullman's new novel, "The Bug."
    By Ellen Ullman May 16, 2003

  • Risk mismanagement

    Complex financial instruments have made Wall Street incomprehensible to the average consumer -- and allowed "experts" to make fortunes. Two new books remind us that swindlers may have always been with us, but that today they are running the show.
    By Andrew Leonard May 1, 2003

  • Faster! Stronger! Less human!

    In "Enough," Bill McKibben argues that genetic engineering will deprive our children of their freedom to choose who and what they are.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 30, 2003

  • The Napster backlash

    When Savenapster.com founder Chad Paulson decided that the file-trading pioneer cared more about money than artists, he stunned the company by changing sides. An excerpt from "All the Rave."
    By Joseph Menn April 21, 2003

  • Nodal point

    William Gibson talks about how his new present-day novel, "Pattern Recognition," processes the apocalyptic mind-set of a post-9/11 world.
    By Andrew Leonard February 13, 2003

  • Warren Buffett's revenge

    A timely new book about the Sage of Omaha's management practices shows how, after Enron and the dot-com bubble, the multibillionaire was right about everything.
    By Andrew Leonard January 24, 2003

  • Remembrance of dot-com idiocy past

    At least Enron and WorldCom went down because of greed. But as James Ledbetter's "Starving to Death on $200 Million a Year" reveals, the Industry Standard pissed away a fortune out of mere carelessness.
    By Andrew Leonard January 10, 2003

  • Very personal finance

    A mint man's musings on money show how cash flows sculpt our lives.
    By Andrew Leonard October 24, 2002

  • In greed we trusted

    Robert Bryce's Enron book entertainingly chronicles fraudulent excesses and office sex. But was Enron a fluke -- or capitalism taken to its logical extreme?
    By Andrew Leonard October 8, 2002

  • How greedy was my Valley?

    A noir mystery and an academic study anatomize Silicon Valley's culture of fast money and culture splicing.
    By Andrew Leonard September 18, 2002

  • Garrison Keillor starts largest book club

    By the Associated Press August 20, 2002

  • Remember when we had no e-mail?

    James Gleick, author of "What Just Happened," explains what he got right, and wrong, over the last 10 years.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski June 25, 2002

  • The end of the revolution

    "Ruling the Root" documents the sorry tale of how the Internet was brought to heel.
    By Andrew Leonard June 14, 2002

  • A new teenage wasteland?

    Script kiddies, Web site defacers, chat-room gangsters: Today's digital troublemakers get a bad rap. But in "The Hacker Diaries" we learn that they're really all right.
    By Andrew Leonard June 5, 2002
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