Gibbon, Brest and Harvey, Lindstrom

I've read three books since yesterday, along with an issue of The New Yorker. One of the books is Perceval Gibbon's novel of colonial Africa, Margaret Harding. I found it a conventional story demonizing distrust of miscegenation, and I was shocked at the derogatory use of words to describe blacks, apparently used without discrimination in 1911, when the novel was published. I also read Money Well Spent, about strategic philanthropy, by Brest and Harvey. I also read Buyology, by Martin Lindstrom, which was a long justification and plea for better funding his area of neurological causes of behavior. I am now in the middle of Angier's Double Bond, a biography of Primo Levi.