Are there people in your office who plaster their cubicles with stuff like kitten calendars and motivational sayings? Commentator and economist Tyler Cowen introduces us to a book that wonders what all that stuff tells us about those people.

Our series on the best Marketplace beach reads continues with commentator Mona Eltahawy and her recommendation: Rabih Alameddine's "The Hakawati."

Commentator Robert Reich continues our series on the best beach reads with a look back at economics during the Gilded Age with Thorstein Veblen's "The Theory of the Leisure Class."

Commentator and writer Karrie Jacobs continues our series on the best summer beach reads with William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition."

Commentator and economist Susan Lee kicks off our series on summer beach reads with Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt."