Matt Murray

Editor in Chief, Wall Street Journal

American Pastoral
by Philip Roth

I’m rereading American Pastoral by Philip Roth, finding myself caught up in the rush of his prose.

Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome
by Douglas Boin

Extending my fascination with late Roman history.

Eagerly about to dive into The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell, our reporters who owned the story, and Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost by Michael C. Bender of our DC bureau. 

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