Book Reviews

Yale Oddball Drives Market, Buffett Shuns Mob: Top Book Reviews Justin Fox’s “The Myth of the Rational Market,” a rich history of a seductive investing idea, led the list of the most-read Bloomberg book reviews in June.

Illy Chief Makes Complex Brew, Adorns Cups With Cruz: Interview “Coffee is an aesthetic experience,” says Andrea Illy, chairman and chief executive officer of Illycaffe SpA, based in Trieste, Italy. “It’s pure indulgence.”

Cuba Keeps Ill Writer Jailed as Norway Awards Prize: Commentary A few weeks ago, Normando Hernandez Gonzalez got the kind of news that usually prompts cheers and emotion-filled toasts.

Ex-Lehman Trader Explores 9/11 Deaths, Lost Child in Lean Novel A bond trader named Kyle is rising in a World Trade Center elevator, heading for a 9 o’clock breakfast meeting. Then he feels a shimmy and sway.

How New York Almost Got Another Baseball Team: Sports Books This season brings a bumper crop of books about baseball in New York, the best of which concerns a team and a league that don’t even exist.

Hoare’s ‘Leviathan’ Captures 20,000-Pound Samuel Johnson Prize Philip Hoare’s “Leviathan” won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize, defeating Liaquat Ahamed’s “Lords of Finance” and four other finalists for the annual U.K. nonfiction award, worth 20,000 pounds ($33,150).

Small Dinosaurs, Saved by Noah, Reach U.S.: Manuela Hoelterhoff In olden days, every village had one: an idiot. Just one, though. A village with too many idiots collected the extra ones and put them on a ship of fools.

Airplane Graveyard, Dead Tuna Spark Alain de Botton Epiphanies Though Alain de Botton has titled his new book “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work,” his field of inquiry is really much wider. With sufficient time he’d be happy to investigate every area of human endeavor -- which is part of his point. In the modern world, they practically all fall under the rubric of work.