LORDS OF FINANCE: The Bankers Who Broke the World
By Liaquat Ahamed

The parallels with our own moment are impossible to miss in Ahamed’s narrative about four members of “the most exclusive club in the world,” central bankers who dominated global finance in the post-World War I era. Ahamed, a longtime investment manager, evokes in glittering detail a volatile time of financial bubbles followed by busts, all of it guided by players wedded to economic orthodoxy.

RAYMOND CARVER: A Writer’s Life

By Carol Sklenicka
 
Ten years in the making, this prodigiously researched and meticulous biography sympathetically and adroitly integrates its subject’s work with the turbulent life ­— marred by alcoholism, financial turmoil and family discord — that brought it into ­being. ­Sklenicka shrewdly deconstructs Carver’s fraught relationship with Gordon Lish, the editor who played an outsize role in the creation of Carver’s stories, the most influential of a generation.

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