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© Alice Neale. Courtesy of Ned Beauman London-born Ned Beauman is the author of four novels, each of them published to critical acclaim. Released in 2010, Boxer, Beetle, its protagonist a hapless Londoner with an unfortunate medical condition that lends him the smell of rotten fish, won The Guardian First Book Award, and its successor, The Teleportation Accident, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012. Glow, published in 2014, updates the thriller for a new generation, its charact...

“The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win” By Maria Konnikova 326 pages Konnikova is a psychologist with an interest in con artistry and game theory. She approached her publisher inspired by Colson Whitehead’s Noble Shuffle, where a magazine gave a novelist 10K to play a Vegas poker tournament. It was an entertainment. Konnikova does another take — ultimately as entertaining, and more helpful to the novice. The author wasn’t a player whe...

How a Neurosurgeon (and Netflix Star) Spends His Sundays “I exhaust myself mentally during the week,” said Dr. David Langer, whose down time includes reading and walks in Central Park. Dr. David Langer with his wife,  Dr. Nancy Lipsitz, and their dogs, Cooper and Stark, in Central Park. Credit...Gili Benita for The New York Times By Alix Strauss Published Feb. 12, 2021Updated Feb. 13, 2021 Yes, it’s possible to be a doctor and play one on TV. Just look at the career of Dr. David Langer,...

Join Maria Konnikova set out a personal challenge. Having never played a hand of poker in her life, she would master the game in a year and enter the poker world’s most prestigious event, The World Series of Poker. In her memoir The Biggest Bluff , she explains her mission was not merely to excel at poker, but to study the relationship between luck and skill, the two central factors in the game — and critically in life as well. As she writes, “I hoped to learn how to make the best decisi...

Reasonable financial market returns masked a tumultuous year as investors continue to search for patterns in the market’s erratic behaviour. In a fitting end to 2020 more surprises rolled in over December, with share prices oscillating wildly, commodity prices remaining depressed and cheap valuations overtaking business fundamentals.

MCD / WIRED Its been a year for glumly refreshing live blogs and breaking news websites. But we have managed to get some reading done too. Here, our writers and editors have picked out our favourite books released in 2020 across the broad range of areas that WIRED covers. Uncanny Valley, by Anna Wiener In this memoir, New Yorker tech correspondent Anna Wiener recounts her experiences as a millennial diving into San Francisco’s tech startup scene. Disillusioned with her job in publishing, Wi...

Episode Notes On the Gist, the shrinking list of Democrats in Congress. And, today in Remembrances of Things Trump: Trump trying to surprise the parents of British teenager Harry Dunn with their son’s killer. In the interview, the Gist’s favorite guest, Maria Konnikova, is back for another round of “Is That Bullshit?” She and Mike talk about long shot political wins and describe what it meant for Donald Trump to draw an inside straight in 2016. It’s a great hand to bluff with, but of...