Staff Pick: Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau - The Millions

Douglas R. Hofstadter, whose ten-year-old Gödel, Escher, Bach shows few signs of fatigue. Several years ago the Club, not even blinking at the title, offered his Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, which ponders such imponderables as the nature of human creativity and the limits of artificial intelligence.