Novelist Jane Smiley has her own ideas about which invention ranks as the most important of the 20th century, said Michael Rosenwald in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. In this “graceful” new work of ...
“You know the story of the invention of the computer?” one character asks another midway through Jane Smiley’s best-selling 1995 novel “Moo.” The speaker, an animal scientist, dreams of striking it ...