Rigor vs. Rigor Mortis
In The Smartest Kids In The World: And How They Got That Way, Amanda Ripley is that rare scribe deft enough to move from personal anecdote, to policy, case study, and back again.
By Ben Fulton
Ship To It
Rose George drenches the reader in her ocean-wide chronicle of sea-faring commerce, past and present, but her book's meandering passages warn you in advance to don a lifejacket.