WHAT'S UP WITH THE DEVIL IN THE TITLES OF BOOKS?

Last week's New York Times Book Review features at least four titles that include the word "devil": The Devil Wears Prada (paperback fiction bestseller list), The Devil in the White City (paperback nonfiction bestseller), The Devil of Nanking (a new and noteworthy paperback edition of a novel), and The Devil is a Gentleman (full scale review of a very interesting nonfiction book about religiosity in America). Then of course Dan Brown's Angels & Demons is still on the paperback fiction bestseller list too. This is surely a record--and a sign of the times.