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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 characters spread out over several continents but converging on a dentist’s office not far from Charing C...

“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 when she pitched the idea to her publisher, but gave herself a year to try to win at a Vegas tournament...

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, who is the chairman of neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital, which also provides the backdrop for �...

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 decisions I possibly could, not just at the card table but in the world. Through poker, I wanted to tame l...

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.