• • Clintons canoodle, market deity Rand in year’s top nonfiction 
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“Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right,” by Jennifer Burns (Oxford) and “Ayn Rand and the World She Made,” by Anne C. Heller (Doubleday). Sales of Rand’s books soared last year, making these two well-researched biographies especially timely. Burns’s book focuses more on Rand’s ideas, while Heller’s is a thorough recounting of her life -- from privileged Russian schoolgirl to Hollywood screenwriter to bestselling novelist with a handsome husband and much younger lover on the side.      View blog reactions

• Ex-Lehman partner cooks up frisky domestic diva, hot IPO 
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Review of the novel Love and Money, by Michael M. Thomas.
[Characters] Clifford and Jekyll sometimes sound as if they’ve wandered in from an Ayn Rand novel, lecturing each other on morals: “If this country’s most-advantaged citizens, the people with the most chips, don’t stand up for what’s right and principled, there’s no hope,” Jekyll says, trying to convince Clifford to go along with the case.      View blog reactions