Publishers Weekly, May 28th, 2001
Across the street from Louis Menand's new office, the Empire State Building gleams; cross the hall, on a sunny Sunday morning, stand empty tables and chairs. Inside, Menand ("Luke" to his friends and acquaintances) sits comfortably amid books from all sorts of eras and fields--new poetry abuts l9th-century novels; John Rawls's philosophical classic A Theory of Justice faces the biologist Ernst Mayr's magisterial tome on adaptation. The inviting and interdisciplinary space seems exactly appropriate to Menand, who has become one of America's most versatile, and perhaps one of its busiest, public...
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