A review of Blood Work, based on the novel by Michael Connelly describes Connelly as "one of those post-Chandler hardboiled writers (the best include Lawrence Block in his Matt Scudder series, George P. Pelecanos, and Dennis Lehane)." I know Matt Scudder, but not the others.

Then there's this:

Other pamphlet writers reserve their ammunition for particular academic disciplines. In "Waiting For Foucault, Still," Mr. Sahlins tackles the theoretical excesses of anthropologists. In "New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies From Left to Right," the critic Thomas Frank does the same for the field of cultural studies. By the 1990's, Mr. Frank contends, facile "cult stud" arguments about the "subversive potential" of a television sitcom or the "counter-hegemonic" impact of shopping malls had come to look uncomfortably like the market populism promoted by the pro-business right: both groups appear to equate consumerism with democratic self-expression.

And I came across these earlier:
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter L. Bernstein; Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes-And How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics, by Gary Belsky, Thomas Gilovich (I may have read that); Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and from the Economist: Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson and Who's Sorry Now? by Howard Jacobson.