PositiveThe Wall Street JournalSo focused on bettors and the bets they bet that one might suspect it was written not by Nate Silver but by Nathan Detroit ... Silver is a serious poker player. Unless you are yourself serious about poker, you’re likely to find the author’s lengthy hand-by-hand description of his successes and failures a bit tiresome.
Judith Tick
RaveThe Wall Street JournalTick’s thoughtful and thorough biography traces Fitzgerald’s career ... Tick draws a picture of an idol who, regardless of the joy she gave, suffered from the neurotic notion that the crowds, like that first audience at the Apollo, could not be counted on to like her or her music.
Sue Armstrong
PositiveThe Wall Street JournalTo her credit, Ms. Armstrong doesn’t pretend that there is any one answer to the question of why we age as we do. The science she presents is a grab bag of divergent theories, each championed by a scientific subspecialty ... One comes away from Borrowed Time not only with a range of wildly varying speculations on aging but also with a sense of the politics of scientific research, with its intellectual silos, its creativity-stifling insistence on consensus, its grubby scraping for grant money.
