Russian/British writer Peter Pomerantsev follows on to his previous book on the propaganda state of Putin’s Russia with a series of essays (interspersed with the story of his only families experience as Soviet dissidents) on how the same tactics have taken a hold globally since he left Moscow in 2009.

Journalist Gregory Zuckerman’s biography of legendary quant hedge fund manager Jim Simons, founder of Renaissance Technologies.

Made it about 20 pages, I couldn’t really follow the narrative structure, so I bailed.