You know how writers are sometimes asked whom they would like to have over for a small dinner party? Well, historian, biographer and academic Walter Isaacson, out now with another magnificent tome, ...
FINE PRINT Voracious bibliophiles have a funny habit of grazing the fine print — dedication, epigraph and acknowledgments — before tucking into the main course of a book. For many readers, these pages ...
Much like a sailboat tacking into a fierce wind, Walter Isaacson’s “biography” of gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna bounces all over the genetic spectrum. He starts “The Code Breaker” like a ...