Forecast: The third volume of the trilogy, The System of the World, is due in September (and it may take readers till then to finish volume two). Though fatigue might winnow out a few fans, most ...

I just finished The System of the World, book 3 of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. I've been a big fan of him since I read Snow Crash way back in 7th grade but this trilogy bumped him up into a ...

OVER THE PAST YEAR OR SO, Neal Stephenson has produced a minor miracle: not one, but three bestselling nine-hundred-page novels, all focused on obscure topics of cryptography, monetary theory, and ...

"I love reading novels. You can understand them without thinking too much." So claims philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, one of the real-world savants fictionalized in Neal ...