Editor's note: Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics at George Mason University and co-proprietor of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution, writes the One Sentence Book Review for The One Page Magazine, as well as a regular column for the Sunday business section. He reads more and more widely than any person we know, except professional book reviewers (but probably most of them too).
Book(s) I'm Reading Right Now:
Hilary Mantel, "Bring Up the Bodies."
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket."
Gershom Gorenberg, "The Unmaking of Israel."
"India Handbook," Footprint Guide, Chennai section (I am going there shortly).
I don't like to read too much fiction at once, but it seems crazy to me not to read both fiction and nonfiction at the same time. The Mantel I had been saving up for a trip, which I am on now, currently in India, coming from Israel. I am reading the Poe because I loved the movie "Life of Pi" and wanted to see the connections, which are numerous. My next task is to go to the best bookshop in Mumbai and replenish the pile. When traveling I usually read fewer books than is normally the case.
Last book I loved:
Karl Knausgaard, "My Struggle." I call this the Norwegian Proust, albeit with less abstraction and more concreteness. I finished it not long ago, am still thinking about it and regard it as one of the great European novels. I very much hope that the remaining five volumes will be translated from the Norwegian into a language I can read.
Unread book on my bedside table that gnaws at my conscience:
I have a chess set by my bedside table, though I am not using it. It would gnaw at my conscience if I did. I might instead cite books where, although I have looked at every page, I am not sure I can say that I have read them. Such as Heidegger's "Being and Time," or Plotinus.
A book that practically everyone I know has read but I haven't:
Most of the Harry Potter series (I have read Volume 1 and bits of the others). They bore me, I am sorry to say, and I don't understand their extreme popularity. Still, I am happy that contemporary readers still can find room for very long books in their lives, and a serial installment at that.
Three books outside my field I would recommend to readers in my field:
Suketu Mehta, "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found"
Hermann Melville, "Moby-Dick."
Olaf Stapledon, "Star Maker."
I am in Mumbai now and so that is what I think about all the time. The other two are obsessive masterpieces, with worldviews very different from those of the economists.
All-time favorite work of fiction:
Marcel Proust, "In Search of Lost Time," closely followed by Dickens's "Bleak House."
The latter is the most underrated of all the great or classic novels. It requires an especially close reading. Don't be put off if you don't like most Dickens. I don't either.
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