The financial website Bloomberg.com says that The Age of Turbulence, the new book by the famously hard-to-decipher former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, is "an easy, breezy read."--David E

All the big books have promo videos now. But only a few can claim the pedigree that the video for Naomi Klein's new book Shock Doctrine has: Assisting Klein is none other than Alfonso Cuaron, director of Y Tu Mama Tambien and Children of Men. Long a critic of globalization, Klein takes aim at "distaster … Continue reading Y Tu Money Tambien

Nicola Barker's Man Booker Prize-nominated novel Darkmans will be published in the US in January, Publishers Weekly announced today. That leaves Animal's People as the only shortlisted title not available to American readers; US rights for that novel are currently on the auction block, and we should know a publication date soon.--David E