Shelfology Book Pairing

Cracking the Money Code

by Michael Lewis

If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is dead. Now, the world's money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. Even the experts entrusted with your cash don't know what's happening to it. And the very few who do aren't about to tell - because they're making a killing. In 'Flash Boys', Michael Lewis tells the explosive story of how one group of ingenious oddballs and misfits set out to expose what was going on.

by Erik Larson

Personal form of criticism, focusing on the wide-ranging issues of identity and history raised by King Lear by exploring Australians' engagements with the play.