FICTION
DC Pierson, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To (Vintage Contemporaries). A coming-of-age story for nerds, geeks and comic book lovers. lat.

NONFICTION
Brian Dillon, The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives (Faber). C'è un collegamento tra l'essere ipocondriaci ed essere geni. La biografia di nove ipocondriaci geniali: James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould e Andy Warhol. salon.

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Freefall. America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy (Norton). Il premio Nobel per l'economia critica la politica economica di Obama. nytbr.

Jonathan R. Cole, The Great American University. Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected (PublicAffairs). Indagine molto interessante sulle università americane. nytbr.

DA LEGGERE
Il profilo di una poetessa irlandese poco conosciuta, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. g/o.

"I started thinking about language—I mean really thinking about it—a few years ago when I signed up for first-semester Arabic at UC Berkeley. There was something about entering a language knowing absolutely nothing that made me consider what it is I know about those two languages I do speak (and read and write), English and Spanish." Daniel Alarcón, Eduardo Halfon, e Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, tre scrittori sudamericani che vivono negli USA discutono dello scrivere in inglese e/o spagnolo. believer.