FICTION
Bret Easton Ellis (nella foto), Imperial Bedrooms (Knopf). Seguito di Less Than Zero. vv.

Isabel Allende, Island Beneath the Sea (Harper). Romanzo basato sulla rivolta degli schiavi del 1791 nella colonia francese di Saint-Domingue, che portò all'indipendenza di Haiti. wp.

NONFICTION
William Rosen, The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry and Invention: Water, Fire, and the Most Powerful Idea in the World (Jonathan Cape). "If the process of thinking up 'gadgets' was, at bottom, the same for Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci and James Watt, why did it take until the middle of the 18th century for a trickle [of inventions] to become a wave?" Three hundred pages later we get the answer: the ground had been fertilised by political, philosophical and intellectual changes that, for the first time, rewarded both the inventor and society for making and accepting change. g/o.

Milton Rokeach, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti (Columbia UP, 1964). Un curioso esperimento. Negli anni Cinquanta Rokeach mise insieme, nello stesso padiglione psichiatrico, tre suoi pazienti che credevano tutti di essere Gesù. slate.

NYC
Libri sull'essere giovani a New York, nytbr.

INTERVISTE
A Daniel Clowes, graphic novelist. g/o.