![]() ![]() ![]() One way to think of the federal government is as the manager of a giant portfolio of risks, many of them catastrophic. The New York Times Book Review, Amazon, The Boston Globe, LitHub, Vulture, Slate, Elle, Vox, and Electric Literature Tana French s best and most. “And I had this sense, when Trump was elected and the way he was approaching governing, that he was doing that, across a big portfolio of risks. “If you take a catastrophic risk, something that’s like a one-in-a-million chance of happening and make it one in 10,000, still very remote, but increasing the likelihood a hundred times, people don’t feel it,” Lewis said. In October 2018, Michael Lewis visited us to talk about his book “The Fifth Risk,” which is about the government’s management of risks - a subject he said didn’t seem exciting to him until the election of Donald J. This week, we have an especially - unfortunately - timely episode. A spellbinding stand-alone novel carefully crafted in her unique, darkly elegant prose style. Tana French is at the cutting edge of crime fiction, and The Witch Elm pushes its boundaries further. ![]() But during the coronavirus crisis, we’re going back to our archives for the time being. She sucks you in with mystery, then unfurls a masterfully rendered, super specific slice of Irish society. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listenįor the 15 years it’s been around, the Book Review’s podcast has never missed an episode. When Tana French’s new novel The Witch Elm was announced, readers were surprised and perhaps more than a little disappointed to hear that it would not be a continuation of her enormously successful thriller series, The Dublin Murder Squad. ![]()
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