December 19, 2003

'The New Yorker,' Mysteries, 'Machiavellian Mischief,' Trollope, Economics, and Homer Rewritten

Gary Marcus,an associate professor of psychology at New York University and author of

The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought (Basic, 2004):

For pleasure, I read:

  • Novelists with a clear and present love of language. Traditionally, that's included just about anything by Philip Roth (sure, Kidman and Hopkins can act, but the book really was much better), and lately that's included Jonathan Safran Foer's

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