Allure of Deceit

Julia Lambert relishes what seems like a perfect life at the start of  Cost, the novel by Roxana Robinson. A college professor, landscape pa...

Despite or maybe because of his self-centered ways, an Irish poet attracts female fans in The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright. After the wif...

A child can develop resilience despite domestic violence, neglect and abandonment, poverty and inequality. In Hang the Moon by Jeannette Wa...

  The Ghetto Within by Santiago H. Amigorena describes a carefree man leaving Poland to start a new home in Buenos Aires in 1928. His mother...

Terrorism starts at home, so suggests the tale of Fear of Beauty. The petty resentments, the irrationality, the scapegoating and complain...